Spatial Formats under the Global Condition

Spatial Formats under the Global ConditionContributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re )spatialization on the one hand and the establishment and characteristics of spatial formats on the other hand. Under the global condition spatial formats are products of collective negotiations on the most effective and widely acceptable balance between the

Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American ‘denial of empire’ and the lived practice of management

Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast

Thompson also highlights the role of audiences in sustaining a vibrant theater culture

are able to meet virtually all their material needs with the skills and labor available to the individual household

Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home and in the workplace

He was an adviser with groups such as the M-19 guerrillas in Columbia and the Sandinistas

such as a Lenten calendar

and - looking outside the country to its place in the world - South Africa's relationships with north-east Asia

most entertaining

criminal conspiracies

A final chapter also considers the invasion of Egypt by Alexander the Great and shows how he exploited and revised the discursive tradition in his conquest of the country

and what can be called “Byzantine philosophy”