Global Modernities [Hardcover]

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 `nation-state' and `national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.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 `nation-state' and `national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.`A timely contribution to current debates around globalization theory and an excellent introduction to this complex and contradictory field of study. Globalization theory has not simply supplanted postmodernism, but has rather refocused many of the issues raised by postmodernism towards a more serious reappraisal of the whole question of modernity itself' - Habitat InternationalGlobalization, Modernity and the Spatialization of Social Theory - Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash
An Introduction
Glocalization - Roland Robertson
Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity
Globalization as Hybridization - Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Global System, Globalization and the Parameters of Modernity - Jonathan Friedman
New World Order or Neo-World Orders - Timothy W Luke
Power, Politics and Ideology in Informationalizing Glocalities
The Times and Spaces of Modernity (or Who Needs Postmodernism?) - Anthony D King
Routes to/through Modernity - G[um]oran Therborn
Searching for a Centre that Holds - Zygmunt Bauman
Security, Philosophy and Politics - Michael Dillon
Normality - Exception - Cl“!