Dislocating globality : deterritorialization, difference and resistance / edited by �Sar��unas Paunksnis.

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Preface; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; part 1; Experiencing Difference, Transculturalism and Migration ; Chapter 1; On Autonomy and Migration: The Politics of Statelessness; Jacob P. Chamberlain; 1 Introduction ; 2 Vertical Aggregates and Migration; 3 Agency, Autonomy and the Camp; 4 Global Movement, Autonomy and 'Citizenship'; 5 Arendt, Agamben and Statelessness: Who Belongs to the Polis?; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 2; Suis-Je Charlie? A Postcolonial Genealogy of the French Response to the Charlie Hebdo Attack; Jeanne Kay; 1 Introduction ; 2 The Ancestry of 'Je suis Charlie'

3 Ethics of Identification: Who Can be Whom?4 Being Charlie, being Civilized; 5 To be or Not to be Charlie in an Impermeable Republic; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 3; Dialectics of the Local and Global in the Work of Subodh Gupta; Allie Biswas; 1 Introduction ; 2 The Local/Global Category ; 3 Out of India: Contemporary Indian Artists and the Global Art Scene; 4 Work-in-Progress: Gupta's Early Explorations; 5 Looking Inwards: A Transition; 6 Visualisations of Change; 7 'Indian' to 'Global'; 8 Construction and Consumption of Steel in Contemporary India; Chapter 4.

Deterritorialization of the Image: Dissonances in the Imagery of Arab Identity?N�em�esis Srour; 1 Introduction; 2 Image-territory ; 3 Deterritorializing the Image by the Sound? ; 4 Beyond the Sounds of the Territory ... ; 5 To the Trans-Arab Collective Imagination? ; Chapter 5; From 'The Madwoman in the Attic' to 'The Queer Stranger in the Closet': Sexuality and Migration at the Crossroads; Mara Matta; 1 Introduction ; 2 Madness and Queerness: A Frame of Investigation of the Journey of the 'Homo/Migrant'. ; 3 Ashing the Attic and Blasting the Closet: Slashed Identities and Queer Subjectivities.

4 Bangladesh and the Contemporary Tribulations of 'Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name'5 Conclusion; Chapter 6; Transnationalism as Fragmentation of Globality: Ethnification and Strategies of Reterritorialization of Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States; Vytis �Ciubrinskas; 1 Introduction; 2 The Fragmentation of Globality: Deterritorialization and Transnationalism; 3 Diaspora and the Symbolic Power of Culture; 4 The Quest for Reterritorialization and Remembered Places; 5 The Politics of Difference: Ethnification; 6 Early Immigrants: 'Transplanted Culture' and American Enculturation.

7 Sensitivity to Roots as Identity Politics8 The Politics of Re-rooting of Heritage and Other Forms of Reterritorialization; 9 Post-socialist Transnationals: The Uncertainty of Translocation; 10 Ethnic Networking and Trans-ethnic Ties; 11 Conclusion; part 2; Articulating Globalized Present and Resistance ; Chapter 7; The Architects of the New Turkey: Globalization of Urban Space in Istanbul and the New Islamic Gentry; Dennis Mehmet; 1 Introduction; 2 The AKP's Istanbul; 3 Turkey and Its History of Nation-Building; 4 Globalization and Territory; 5 Conclusion; Chapter 8.

Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization, its effects, the critique of neoliberalism, and discusses various forms of resistance to its monocultural raison d���e��tre. The authors in this volume address these issues from a variety of perspectives ��� theoretical, as well as geographically diverse case-based analyses ranging from South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, and Australia in attempt to show the diverse effects of globalization, and varied forms of negotiating globalization on a local level. Contributors are: Allie Biswas, Katherine Burrows, Jacob P. Chamberlain, Vytis C��iubrinskas, Maria Halouva, Jeanne Kay, Mara Matta, Gintautas Maz��eikis, Dennis Mehmet, Beatriz Miranda-Galarza, Mustafa Mustafa, Abhijeet Paul, S��aru��nas Paunksnis, and Ne��me��sis Srour.

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