A World Beyond Difference

Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2690-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses.

- Presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences

- Interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to world culture

- Draws from the work of recent major social theorists, comparing them to classical social theorists in an instructive manner

- Grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographic research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niezen, Ronald

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

1 Introduction 1

2 The Tradition of Rational Utopianism 11

3 The Cultural Contradictions of Globalization 35

4 (Anti) Globalization from Below 57

5 Human Rights Pluralism and Universalism 82

6 Postmodernism’s Revolt Against Order 102

7 The New Neo-Marxism 122

8 Paradigms of Postcolonial Liberation 144

9 Conclusion 168

Notes 179

References 204

Index 213

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald Niezen is Visiting Professor of Anthropology at McGill University and Guest Researcher at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie at Humboldt University in Berlin, and former Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity (2003), Spirit Wars (2000), and Defending the Land (1998).