Description: Brings together globally diverse perspectives on how the forces shaping the earth, both human and nonhuman, are articulated in art and cultural practice.
Brief description: Simon Ferdinand is a Veni Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where he writes on the politics and poetics of mapping and cultural visions of the whole earth. Simon is the author of a monograph, Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (Nebraska University Press, 2019), and coeditor of Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2020) and Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (Palgrave, 2019). Alongside his research, which is currently funded by the Dutch Research Council, Simon runs English Academic Editing, which supports scholars preparing research for publication.