Metanationalizing Theory in Comparative Studies
Metanationalizing Theory in Comparative Studies

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a conceptual proposal in favor of employing the metanational, a term and concept born in the economy theories on the multinational, as a descriptor and a theoretical tool in the humanities, here represented by comparative studies. Namely, addressing the lack of target and purpose of transnationalist descriptions, as well as the Romanticization of the uneven character of cultural peripheralities and of scholarship on marginality, the metanational has a useful vectorial definition pointing to a change in how knowledge is produced and used, with a focus on networking, self-reflexiveness, spatialization of historicity, and on recognizing agency when learning "with/ from" the world, via sensing webs of scattered knowledges. The paper discusses differences between metanational and other transnational forms of anti-globalist posits, such as the ones already canonized as mainstream world literature or postcolonial studies.

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