Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation

Edited by Katja Freistein, Research Group Leader, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Bettina Mahlert, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Sigrid Quack, Professor of Sociology and Managing Director and Christine Unrau, Research Group Leader, Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Contents:

Preface xii
1 Imagining pathways for global cooperation: an introduction 1
Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack and Christine Unrau

PART I INITIATING COOPERATION
2 Imagining, visualizing, and narrating peace through trade:
free trade networks, world exhibitions, and pathways of
global cooperation 30
Wolfram Kaiser
3 The ‘true utopia’? Riace, Wim Wenders’ Il Volo, and the
prefigurative politics of migration 52
Christine Unrau
4 Migration as a human right: pathways of global solidarity
at the borders of Europe 70
Stefania Maffeis

PART II CONTESTING COOPERATION
5 Pathways of immunity, customary law, and the creation of
an authoritative past 92
Katja Freistein and Wouter Werner
6 Entangled imaginaries and bonds of shared pain: the case
of Kashmiri and Palestinian resistance 108
Amya Agarwal
7 Pathways and the politics of anticipation: imagining the
corridor for international climate cooperation 126
Jeroen Oomen and Silke Beck

PART III CHANGING COOPERATION
8 The Sphere Project: imagining better humanitarian action
through reflective accountability institutions and practices 147
Maryam Z. Deloffre
9 Imagining credible standards: what’s driving the ISEAL alliance? 170
Christine Overdevest
10 From per capita income to the Human Development Index:
a pathway for imagining development through numbers 188
Bettina Mahlert
11 Envisioning the oikoumene: interfaith networks of social
activism between Europe and Latin America 209
Joanildo Burity
12 Creating, challenging, and changing pathways for
cooperation through imagination 230
Katja Freistein, Bettina Mahlert, Sigrid Quack and
Christine Unrau

Index