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Sandra Holtgreve, Karlson Preuß, Mathias Albert (eds.) Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global Global Studies Sandra Holtgreve, born in 1989, is a doctoral researcher at Bielefeld Universi- ty and part of the Research Training Group “World Politics”. She studied Social Work, sociology, and Inter-American Studies. Her doctoral research deals with knowledge sociology and Social Work education. Karlson Preuß, born in 1988, is a doctoral researcher at Bielefeld University and part of the Research Training Group “World Politics”. He studied philosophy, so- ciology, French and Comparative Constitutional Law and is currently working on his PhD in the field of Sociology of Law. Mathias Albert, born in 1967, is a professor of political science at Bielefeld Uni- versity and Speaker of the Research Training Group “World Politics”. In addition to his research in the history and sociology of world politics, he is active in youth studies (Shell Jugendstudie) and in polar research. Sandra Holtgreve, Karlson Preuß, Mathias Albert (eds.) Envisioning the World: Mapping and Making the Global We acknowledge support for the publication costs by the Open Access Publication Fund of Bielefeld University Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche National- bibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http:// dnb.d-nb.de This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (BY) license, which means that the text may be be remixed, transformed and built upon and be copied and redistributed in any medium or format even commercially, provided credit is given to the author. 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Contents Acknowledgments.............................................................. 7 List of tables .................................................................... 9 List of figures................................................................... 11 Introduction: Envisioning the World, Mapping the Global Sandra Holtgreve, Karlson Preuß, Mathias Albert .....................................13 From Region to World, and Back Again How Latin Americans Envisioned the Global (1810-1840) Gladys Vásquez .................................................................... 29 The World of Anti-Semitism A Historical-Sociological Analysis of the Global Element of Hostility Against Jews in Germany (1780-1925) Marc Jacobsen and Tobias Werron.................................................. 45 Envisioning a World Law Reflections on the Congrès international de droit comparé (1900) and the Latent Underpinnings of Comparative Legal Practice Karlson Preuß...................................................................... 65 Determining the Global from a Social Work Perspective Sandra Holtgreve and Cornelia Giebeler ............................................. 87 The Revolution in Rojava and the International Yasin Sunca....................................................................... 105 Resisting World Politics on ‘Migration and Development’? Tracing the Trajectory of Counter Discourses and Movements in Latin America Mustafa Aksakal .................................................................. 125 ‘Sovereignty’ and ‘Intervention’ Metaphors of Russia’s Loneliness in a Global World Sergei Akopov..................................................................... 145 Russia and the EU in a Multipolar World: Invoking the Global in Russian Terms Aziz Elmuradov.................................................................... 165 Back from the USSR Envisioning the Global Through Journey Narratives Lucy Gasser........................................................................179 Beyond a Global Horizon Vers la pensée planétaire (1964) and the Discourse of Planetarity 1930-2020 Michael Auer ...................................................................... 199 References .................................................................... 223 Notes on Contributors....................................................... 259 Acknowledgments This book is the outcome of collaborative work of the Research Training Group ‘World Politics: The Emergence of Political Arenas and Modes of Observa- tion in World Society’ at Bielefeld University, funded by the German Research Council (GRK 2225). We are indebted to Stephen Curtis for his excellent lan- guage editing services. We also would like to thank the Institute for World Society Studies for generously supporting the publication of this book. We acknowledge support for the publication costs by the Open Access Publica- tion Fund of Bielefeld University. List of tables Table 8.1: Employment of ‘sovereignty’ in 1994–2018 addresses of Russian presidents Table 8.2: Numbers of symbolic representations of Russian sovereignty 1994–2020 projected onto ‘internal’ and ‘external’ political communities List of figures Figure 8.1: Metaphors of ‘sovereignty’ in addresses of Russian presidents 1994–2020 Introduction: Envisioning the World, Mapping the Global Sandra Holtgreve, Karlson Preuß, Mathias Albert Mapping and making the global through practices of observation Visions of the world and descriptions of the global are based on practices of observation. Rather than working with an account of structures and connec- tions, or with a fixed definition of ‘the global’, the contributions in thisbook seek to identify narratives, images and models that are used in practices of observation in order to address ‘the world’ or ‘the global’ and how they come to appear as a distinct realm of the social world. In addition to considering the conditions for the ‘emergence’ of the global in particular practices of ob- servation, this book is also interested in the impact of these global modes of observation on field-related discourses, processes and agents. It focuses, therefore, on the phenomenological dimension of globalization processes. The individual contributions reconstruct how specific visions of the world emerge in different social fields and how various actors throughout time have tried to map, describe and make sense of the global, thereby contributing to its constitution, that is, to its ‘making’. This book brings together views from Sociology, History, Literary Theory and International Relations and takes up a range of discussions in world soci- ety/world polity as well as in global history research. Many disciplines involved in the field of globalization research are witnessing an increased interest in approaches that pursue the process of globalization at the level of local prac- tices, discourses and strategies. Diverse as the disciplinary, theoretical and empirical backgrounds of the contributions gathered here may be, they con- verge in the effort to retrace ‘practices of world making’ (Bell 2013: 257) in var- ious areas of society. The aim is to establish a connection between different areas in order to find underlying commonalities in observational practices that are not evident at first glance and consequently little addressed inthe 14 Sandra Holtgreve, Karlson Preuß, Mathias Albert globalization literature. We particularly focus on two core issues: the prac- tical driving forces of globalization and the relation between the global and the local. Regarding the former, a main concern is to complement accounts that focus on only one, or a few, ‘grand’ narratives – such as global capitalism, legalization, digitalization etc. – with reconstructions of how a global hori- zon emerges within the perspective of particular observers. As a corollary to this analytical approach, we also seek to demonstrate the ways in which the global and the local are to be understood as complementary sides of the same processes (Werron 2012: 110; see also Robertson 1998). The growing unease with the grand narratives of globalization ‘Grand’ narratives of globalization are usually exactly that: impressive and also beautiful in their grandeur. The diversity of empirical reality quite often turns out to be less beautiful in its actual messiness. The grand narratives that seem to dominate globalization research (cf. Greve and Heintz 2005: 111; Sassen 2007: 6) focus on the emergence of institutions and organizations that op- erate on a worldwide scale, on global networks, interconnectedness through communication technology and global communicative structures. However, various fields of research are experiencing a growing unease about such nar- ratives and criticize them for being biased towards structural or even struc- turally deterministic accounts of global social reality. Criticism has been lev- elled at, for example, world polity theory (of the so-called ‘Stanford School’) and its focus on ‘the institutional conditions of diffusion’ (Strang and Meyer