SpaceTime of the Imperial

SpaceTime of the ImperialThis volume works through spatio temporal concepts to be found in imperial practices and their representations in a wide range of media. The individual cases investigated in the volume cover a broad spectrum of historical periods from ancient times up to the present. Well known international scholars treat special cases of the topic, using cutting edge theory and approaches stemming from historical, cartographic, religious, literary, media studies, as

but under the glow of twilight a nocturnal universe stirs to life

Why It’s Bad

In parts of eighteenth-century Japan

the practice of dressing ‘properly’ has for centuries distinguished ‘civilised’ people from ‘savages’

is neither natural nor innocent

The words of Muhammad (d

Bedeutsamem und Amüsantem

fieldwork and data collection

Eli Jelly-Schapiro traces the political and philosophic genealogies of security and terror—from the settler-colonization of the New World to the wars in Afghanistan

and nonmetropolitan areas during a transformative period in American history

Combating the seductive allure of demagogues and the damage they cause

and coping with inevitable loss—and of how that loss can be transformed into meaning