| Description |
ix, 292 pages ; 24 cm |
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Theory culture & society |
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Theory, culture & society.
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| Contents |
1. Globalization, Modernity and the Spatialization of Social Theory: An Introduction / Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash -- 2. Glocalization: Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity / Roland Robertson -- 3. Globalization as Hybridization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- 4. Global System, Globalization and the Parameters of Modernity / Jonathan Friedman -- 5. New World Order or Neo-world Orders: Power, Politics and Ideology in Informationalizing Glocalities / Timothy W. Luke -- 6. The Times and Spaces of Modernity (or Who Needs Post-modernism?) / Anthony D. King -- 7. Routes to/through Modernity / Goran Therborn -- 8. Searching for a Centre that Holds / Zygmunt Bauman -- 9. Security, Philosophy and Politics / Michael Dillon -- 10. Normality - Exception - Counter-knowledge: On the History of a Modern Fascination / Benno Wagner -- 11. Time, Space, Memory, with Reference to Bachelard / Ann Game -- 12. The Soviet Individual: Genealogy of a Dissimulating Animal / Oleg Kharkhordin |
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13. Bio-politics and the Spectre of Incest: Sexuality and/in the Family / Vikki Bell -- 14. The Birth of Identity Politics in the 1960s: Psychoanalysis and the Public/Private Division / Eli Zaretsky -- 15. The Modern Error: Or, the Unbearable Enlightenment of Being / Eugene Halton |
| Summary |
'Global Modernities' is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the Çıation state' and Çıational sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed |
| Analysis |
Culture Modernism |
| Notes |
(Theory, culture & society) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available electronically |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cultural relations.
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Culture.
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Globalization.
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International relations.
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Modernism (Christian theology)
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Social change.
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| Author |
Featherstone, Mike.
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Lash, Scott.
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Robertson, Roland.
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| LC no. |
95205383 |
| ISBN |
0803979479 |
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0803979487 (paperback) |
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