Table of Contents: “…Hotchkiss -- Toward an ethics of the future / Jérôme Bindé -- A Chinese dream by Wang Jin / Wu Hung -- Mediating time: the "rice bowl of youth" in fin de siècle urban China / Zhang Zhen -- Inside the economy of appearances / Anna Tsing -- A sweet lullaby for world music / Steven Feld -- On the uddered breast -- Prehistories of globalization: Circassian identity in motion / Seteney Shami -- On the predicament of the sign: the modern African woman's claim to locality / Fatu Kande Senghor -- From national capital to global capital: urban change in Mexico City / Néstor García Canclini -- Spatialities and temporalities of the global: elements for a theorization / Saskia Sassen -- Globalizing the regional, regionalizing the global: mass culture and Asianism in the age of late capital / Leo Ching -- The paradoxical invention of economic modernity / Jean-François Bayart.…”