ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part provides the naturalisation of the Eurocentric imaginaries, especially as everyday their usage injects global politics with a lexicon of coloniality. It argues that the lexicon of global politics owes as much – if not more – to fields of inquiry that are not the provenance of political science. The part explores the popular imaginary of the Mediterranean as a frontier of civilisation. It also explores the roots of this imaginary in the Christian mission to provide temporal unity and the transmission of this faith into a linear understanding of the expansion of civilisation into savage and barbarous lands. The part addresses issues and the popular imaginary of Arab feminism. It examines the ways in which international development reproduces and reinforces racialised and gendered subjectivities and how the identities are constructed through everyday encounters where development takes place.
