Global Modernities and the (Re-)Emergence of Ghosts - Kölner UniversitätsPublikationsServer

Tappe, Oliver ORCID: 0000-0002-0154-6844, Hollington, Andrea ORCID: 0000-0001-7238-403X, Kloß, Sinah ORCID: 0000-0001-7990-9329, Salverda, Tijo ORCID: 0000-0003-4668-9838 and Schneider, Nina ORCID: 0000-0003-0836-5664, eds. (2016). Global Modernities and the (Re-)Emergence of Ghosts. Köln: Global South Studies Center Cologne. ISSN 2510-4772 Open Access

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Abstract

Are ghosts modern? It seems that modernization and spirituality do not contradict each other in most parts of the world. Animist beliefs and ghost rituals often form part of people’s everyday lives vis-à-vis a globalized economy. For them, the unpredictable forces of ‘the market’ correspond with the elusive world of spectral entities. Facing economic risk, flexibility, and precarity, people address the ghosts for protection and luck. This issue of “Voices” will explore the interplay of economic and ritual practice, of everyday uncertainties and ghostly agency, of emerging modernities and (re-)emerging spiritualities.

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Editors	Email	ORCID	ORCID Put Code
Tappe, Oliver	otappe@uni-koeln.de	orcid.org/0000-0002-0154-6844	UNSPECIFIED
Hollington, Andrea	andrea.hollington@yahoo.de	orcid.org/0000-0001-7238-403X	UNSPECIFIED
Kloß, Sinah	s.kloss@uni-koeln.de	orcid.org/0000-0001-7990-9329	UNSPECIFIED
Salverda, Tijo	tijo@tijosalverda.nl	orcid.org/0000-0003-4668-9838	UNSPECIFIED
Schneider, Nina	nina.schneider@uni-koeln.de	orcid.org/0000-0003-0836-5664	UNSPECIFIED