Abstract: In the context of capitalist globalisation and time-space compression (as defined by David Harvey), several socio-spatial theorists have analysed the relationship between the local and the global, as well as how certain regional representations are the product of cultural interferences and hybridisations. From this point of view, our special issue, Uneven Worlds. Beyond the Canons of Cultural Representations, investigates the role played by regional and (semi-)peripheral cultures within world-systems and geographies of uneven development, and explores how they resist the false homogenisation implied by globalisation.

Keywords: neology, Spanish gastronomic terminology, lexicogenetic mechanisms, loanwords, resemantization