The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory

Name: The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic USA
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Jeffrey R. Di Leo Christian Moraru(Herausgeber*in)

Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 18. November 2021

528 Seiten

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Disciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has refocused entire fields, methodologies, and vocabularies on the world and its sister terms such as globe, planet, and earth.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory examines what "world" means and what it accomplishes in different zones of academic study. The contributors raise questions such as: What happens when "world" is appended to a particular form of humanistic or scientific inquiry? How exactly does "worlding" bear on the theoretical operating system and the history of that field? What is the theory or theoretical model that allows "world" to function in a meaningful way in coordination with that knowledge domain?

With contributions from 38 leading theorists from a vast range of fields, including queer studies, religion, and pop culture, this is the first large reference work to consider the profound effect, both within and outside the academy, of the worlding of discourse in the 21st century.

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Undoubtedly, this Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory is the most unusual English-language handbook I have encountered this year: original, inspiring, thought-provoking, and diversified. Because of its interdisciplinary - and even transdisciplinary - scope, the Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory is indispensable for research libraries and would serve as an eye-opener for open-minded scholars in an infinity of domains. It reaffirms the pertinence (or the urgency?) of doing theory in a globalized world. Reading this Handbook from one cover to another can be a rewarding experience, no matter in which academic filed you locate yourself. These contributors want to bring the reader beyond. * UCLA Electronic Green Journal * Written in conscious opposition to the priorities sustained by neoliberal globalism, the essays in The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory envision how a 'worlding' of academic fields as well as other discourses and professions can truly democratize and decolonize the domains of work, the arts, and education throughout the planet. These essays propose models rooted in both interdisciplinarity and individuality that can effectively resist the homogenization and top-down models universally dominant since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. * John Pizer, Professor of German, Louisiana State University, USA, and author of The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice * By now, the world has been approached from almost every angle. As long as one is not satisfied with easy universalism, this goal is already difficult to achieve at a discipline level. Yet, Di Leo, Moraru and their many contributors go far beyond that. They end up interweaving all of the specific readings to help us better understand what is really meant by worlding. The effort is immense; the result is extraordinary. * Bertrand Westphal, Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Universite de Limoges, France, and author of The Plausible World * No better proof can be imagined that theory is alive and well than this visionary collection, which takes on the mystery of how thinking has changed, and will have to change further, in response to the challenge of the world scale. It treats what "the world" means not only to an extraordinary range of disciplines, ranging from the humanities to the natural sciences, but also in the professions and, perhaps most important, in zones of concern like sexuality and visual culture that are still seeking their optimum academic organization. The word "inter-disciplinary" is grossly inadequate to describe the intellectual ambition of this volume. Massive as it is, it is still more ambitious than its size indicates. The only thing standing in the way of calling it a landmark is its irresistible freshness. * Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, USA, and author of The Beneficiary *

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Preface and Acknowledgements
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: World Theory in the New Millennium
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)

Part 1: Arts and Humanities

1. Worlding History
Fabio Lopez-Lazaro (University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA)

2. Worlding Philosophy
Brian O'Keeffe (Barnard College, USA)

3. Worlding Ethics
Nigel Dower (University of Aberdeen, UK)

4. Worlding Art
Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne, Australia)

5. Worlding Postmodernism
Hans Bertens (Utrecht University, Netherlands)

6. Worlding Comparative Literature
Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)

7. Worlding Popular Culture
Esther Peeren (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

8. Worlding Music
John Mowitt (University of Leeds, UK)

9. Worlding Cinema
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea)

10. Worlding Theater
Gina MacKenzie (Holy Family University, USA)

11. Worlding Religion
Gerda Heck (American University of Cairo, Egypt) and Stephan Lanz (Europa-Universitaet Viadrina, Germany)

Part 2: Social and Behavioral Sciences

12. Worlding Sociology
Veronika Wittmann (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

13. Worlding Anthropology
Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK)

14. Worlding Economics
Peter Hitchcock (City University of New York, USA)

15. Worlding Psychoanalysis
Dany Nobus (Brunel University, UK)

16. Worlding Women
Robin Goodman (Florida State University, USA)

17. Worlding Gender
Vrushali Patil (Florida International University, USA)

18. Worlding Queer
Sri Craven (Portland State University, USA)

19. Worlding Identity
Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)

Part 3: The Professions

20. Worlding Higher Education
Michael Thomas (Liverpool John Moore University, UK)

21. Worlding Public Policy
Kenneth J. Saltman (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)

22. Worlding International Education
Lien Pham (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

23. Worlding International Relations
Sophia McClennen (Penn State University, USA)

24. Worlding Media Studies
Toby Miller (Loughborough University London, UK) and Jesus Arroyave (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)

25. Worlding Journalism
Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (University of Liverpool, UK)

26. Worlding Publishing
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA)

27. Worlding Architecture
Richard Ingersoll (Politecnico de Milano, Italy)

Part 4: Natural and Formal Sciences

28. Worlding Logic
Paul Livingston (University of New Mexico, USA)

29. Worlding Spatiality Studies
Robert T. Tally Jr. (Texas State University, USA)

30. Worlding Cybernetics
Andrew Culp (California Institute for the Arts, USA)

31. Worlding Systems Theory
Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University, USA)

32. Worlding Biology
Adam Nocek (Arizona State University, USA)

33. Worlding Environmental Studies
Robert P. Marzec (Purdue University, USA)

34. Worlding Earth and Climate Studies
Claire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA)

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