I have to admit, in all my time reading academic articles, I have yet to come across a phrase that has surprised me quite as much as this, the “fetishization of connections”. You could replace ‘connections’ with ‘mobility’ and have
Globalisation: a result of Nationalism? Or vice versa?
Definitions are tough. ‘Transnational’, ‘Global’, ‘Shared’, ‘Comparative’… the list goes on. However, Sebastian Conrad’s book Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany has enlightened me on the differences between these terms. More than that, this book, particularly its introduction, has