ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the historical intersections and co-constitution between imperial 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. The chapter focuses on some of the fundamental conceptual, analytical and historiographical problems related to the study of the historical, longue dure co-constitution of, and uncertain relationship between, imperial and colonial processes and globalizing trajectories. It also addresses issues of periodization and typological reasoning and emphasizes the diverse geographies and observatories of the globalizing processes. While the chapter concentrates more specifically on historical manifestations of various forms of globalization and the extent to which these intersect with imperial and colonial phenomena. The chapter 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.
