The document discusses keywords for understanding the 21st century world and is organized into five sections - Location, Subjectivities, Political Identification, Social Imagination, and Sets of Relationships. Each section lists keywords related to that topic for crafting understanding, such as geographical, cultural, and relational locations; belonging and possession for political identification; and homelands and communities for social imagination. The document suggests using keywords, along with dictionaries, thesauruses, lists, indexes, tables, and databases to understand the world.

1. Keywords for the
21st Century
Nishant Shah
Leuphana University

3. Location
• Crafting Keywords
Boundaries, Territories, Nations, Geographies,
Bodies

4. Subjectivities
Location
Geographical, Social, Cultural, Political, Relational,
Communal
Crafting Keywords

5. Political Identification
Location
Subjectivities
Belonging, Possession, Migration, Livelihood
Crafting Keywords

6. Social Imagination
Location
Subjectivities
Political Identification
Homelands, Communities, Cultures, Rights
Crafting Keywords

7. Sets of
Relationships

8. How do we
understand the
world around
us?

9. Dictionary

10. Thesaurus

11. List

12. Index

13. Table

14. Database

15. What’s your
Keyword?