Dislocating globality : deterritorialization, difference and resistance / edited by Šarū̄nas 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?Némésis 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 Čiubrinskas; 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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