Niezen A World Beyond Difference

Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3710-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

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

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

* Interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to worldculture

* Draws from the work of recent major social theorists, comparingthem to classical social theorists in an instructive manner

* Grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographicresearch

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).