Middlebury Atlas of Globalization (eBook, ePUB)

A concise, visual guide to our globalized world

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There is a reason that the story of globalization pre - sented in this atlas starts in Middlebury. It is in this small Vermont town, home of Middlebury College, where the concept for this atlas was conceived and developed, where most of the maps were designed and drafted, and where the analytical texts were dis cussed and crafted. As critical scholars and profes sors at this liberal arts college, we are keenly aware of the need for fact-based analysis and of the dearth of reliable maps about global processes and flows. We joined together to create an illustrated text that could cast light on the complex nature of globalization. We developed a comprehensive outline of topics and a list of about 100 maps. We were fortunate to have drafts of about half of the maps from the Perthes World Atlas that Guntram had edited previously, but it was clear that we needed to make substantial revisions, develop at least 50 maps on our own, and design a companion website for data updates and additional imagery. We decided to draw on the skills and insight of our students to master this challenge, not just to help us conduct research and design maps, but also to bounce off ideas for the text and maps, and to develop an atlas that was most effective for classroom use. We recruited 15 Middlebury College student research assistants with profound inter - national experience and training in data manage ment and visualizations, such as Q-GIS, Adobe Illustrator, and coding. As a team, we researched options for data collection, discussed strategies for the best representation of data classes, and con ferred about design choices. We faced many difficult choices, such as how to represent data for regions in the world that are occupied by foreign countries, how to draw international boundaries that are con - tested, what to use as the most reliable indicator for social phenomena, or where to source photos for the website. In the end, the strength of the education of IMPRINT our Middlebury students, our own scholarly work, the experience in the classroom, and Middlebury's international links helped us address these challenges. Middlebury was instrumental in making this atlas a reality. It offered generous support for our research students and the production of the atlas and website. Its deep commitment to global education served as an inspiration. Middlebury College attracts students from all over the world who come here to pursue an undergraduate degree in liberal arts. Every summer, the campus houses its renowned language school, where students learn 13 world languages, including Abenaki, which is spoken by the Indigenous inhabi - tants who call this place home. Just up the road in the Green Mountains, the annual Bread Loaf School of English and Writers' Conference draws teachers and writers from all over the globe. Middlebury's presence extends far beyond the east coast. On the other side of the American continent is the Middle - bury Institute of International Studies, its Graduate School in Monterey, California, and Middlebury is in places as far-flung as China, Russia, India, France, Morocco, Cameroon, Brazil - there are a total of 32 Middlebury C.V. Starr Schools Abroad in 16 dif - ferent countries. It is from these diverse places that the photos on our website are sourced. To discover more about Middlebury's vision, its schools, and its research centers, click on the QR code below. The webpage features a map of Middlebury's global community of learning that shows the location of its schools and the home countries of students, faculty, and alumni. Guntram H. Herb Sujata Moorti Kemi Fuentes-George

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Guntram H. Herb, Ph.D., is a scholar of national identity, maps, geopolitics, and borders. His most recent publications include the edited volume Scaling Iden tities: Nationalism and Territoriality (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Perthes World Atlas (2008), and the multi-media website Indigenous Borderlands and Border Rites, which is based on more than 25,000 miles of fieldwork and documents the challenges of Native nations divided by the U.S.-Canada border (www.border rites.org). He is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Scholars Program, National Endowment of the Humanities, and the Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies Project. He is Professor of Geography and International and Global Studies at Middlebury College. Sujata Moorti, Ph.D., is a feminist media studies scholar who has specialized in analyzing the representations of race and gender. Her publications include All American TV Crime Drama (Bloomsbury, 2017). She has written extensively ab out the transnationally circulating media of the South Asian diaspora and about Indian cinema, including Global Bollywood: The Travels of Hindi Song-Dance (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). She is completing a manuscript exploring how social media have helped transform transnational gender justice activism, and co-edited the Wiley-Blackwell International Encyclopedia on Gender and the Media. She is Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Middle bury College. Kemi Fuentes-George, Ph.D., is a scholar of global environmental justice. His training is primarily as a political scientist, but his work draws from a variety of different disciplines, including sociology, and gender and feminist scholar ship. His book Between Preservation and Exploitation: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries (MIT Press, 2016) was the runner-up for the Sprout Award for Best Book in the ISA Environmental Studies section, and discusses how local perceptions of justice and history affect the implementation of global environmental agreements. He is Associate Professor of Political Science and former Director of International and Global Studies at Middlebury College