ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights and problematizes the historical intersections and co-constitution between imperial (specifically colonial) processes and multiple globalizations—that is, the multiple temporalities, trajectories and patterns of global interdependence and exchange of ideas, ideologies, capital, goods and people, and the plural forms of political, economic and socio-cultural globalization. It comprises three distinct sections: the first focuses on conceptual, analytical and historio-graphical problems related to imperial globalization, while the second concentrates more specifically on historical manifestations of various forms of globalization and the extent to which these intersect with imperial and colonial phenomena (i.e. the historical trajectories of imperial globalization). The third section isolates certain themes serving as observatories of these relationships—thus delineating several potential avenues of research—and explores the continuities and modifications along the colonial and postcolonial divide.
