The Hidden Globe

Gather initial thoughts and broad opinions about the book.

1. What were your overall impressions of The Hidden Globe?

2. Discuss what you liked most and least about the book.

3. Compare this book to Abrahamian’s first book, The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (2015).

Encourage readers to connect the book’s themes and characters with their personal experiences.

1. To what extent does Abrahamian’s description of the hidden globe reflect your own beliefs about the globalized economy?

2. Did any of the people profiled in the text remind you of people in your own life or that you are aware of from the news?

3. Abrahamian issues several calls to action in The Hidden Globe. Did any of them move you to think or act differently in your own life around the issues of neoliberalism and fragmented jurisdictions?

4. Did any of the geographies Abrahamian visits as part of her on-the-ground research seem particularly interesting or appealing to you? Which of them would you want to visit and why?