Special Collection: Planetary Perspectives: A New Paradigm?

EDITORS:
Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Aarhus University, Denmark

This collection aims to reconceptualize an internationalist definition of politics as distinct from the prevailing alternatives: one model which emphasizes a global competition among national economies, and another which prizes an unbound, self-regulating global market. Contributions should examine historical developments in social-property relations, economics, politics and law. Aside from the rapid transformations of the last period, which arguably in themselves have signaled the limitations of the concept of globalization, an expansion of politics which encompasses elements of life and experience previously thought of as part of the natural world, also suggests that a new scholarly framework is needed. The title of the collection—planetary perspectives—indicates the quality of this new type of historical and theoretical research. Scholarship which analyzes novel institutional frameworks which may emerge from the new paradigm—that is, which take the form of planetary governance—will also be emphasized.