Time-space compression and the postmodern condition / David Harvey -- The globalising of modernity / Anthony Giddens -- The universalism-particularism issue / Roland Robertson -- Disjuncture and difference / Arjun Appadurai -- Querying globalization / J.K Gibson-Graham -- The global situation / Anna Tsing -- Modernity as history: post-revolutionary China, globalization and the question of modernity / Arif Dirlik -- Free trade and culture / George Yúdice -- Performative discourse and social form / Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan -- The multitude against empire / Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt -- Conjectures on world literature / Franco Moretti -- Beyond discipline: globalization and the future of English / Paul Jay -- Globalization and the claims of postcoloniality / Simon Gikandi -- Globalization, peace, and cosmopolitanism / Jacques Derrida -- Turn to the planet: literature, diversity, and totality / Masao Miyoshi -- Untranslatable, Algeria: the politics of linguicide / Emily Apter -- Deterritorialization and eco-cosmopolitanism / Ursula K. Heise -- Greening, postcolonialism: ecocritical perspectives / Graham Huggan -- Surfing the second wave: Amitav Ghosh's The hungry tide / Pablo Mukerhjee -- Derrida's debt to Milton Friedman / Michael Tratner -- Giving and receiving: Nurudin Farah's gifts or the postcolonial logic of third world aid / Tim Woods -- Aesthetics of globalization in contemporary fiction: the function of the fall of the Berlin Wall / Padmaja Challakere -- Eempires / Rita Raley -- Fear and loathing in globalization / Frederic Jameson -- Indians: the globalized woman on the community stage / Katrin Sieg -- The sweatshop sublime / Bruce Robbins -- The hungry ghost: imf policy, capitalist transformation and laboring bodies in southeast Asia / Joseph Medley and Lorrayne A Carrol -- East African literature and the politics of global reading / Peter J. Kalliney -- We are not the world: global village, universalism, and Karen Tei yamashita's tropic of orange / Sue-Im Lee -- An elegy for African cosmopolitanism: phaswane Mpe's welcome to our hillbrow / Neville Hoad -- Movements and protests / Suman Gupta.