Modernity Globalization And Identity

Author : Avijit Pathak
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 8187879610

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Enough Has Already Been Said And Written About Modernity, Globalization And Identity. What, However, Distinguishes The Book Is Its Reflexivity_The Politico-Ethical Questions It Raises, And The Way It Makes Us Confront Our Own Ambiguities And Life-Experiences. It Uses Contemporary Sociological Litertature, Negotiates With Diverse Sources Of Creative Imagination, And Remains Immensely Sensitive To The Specificity Of Our Own Social Reality: The Trajectory Of Indian Modernity, The Dynamics Of Cultural Memory And Globalization, And The Dialectic Of Identity Politics. With Its Argumentative Style It Pleads For A Humane/Reflexive Modernity, Narrates The Possibility Of A Profound Art Of Resistance Against Asymmetrical Globalization, And Strives For A More Open And Dialogic Society That Inspires One To Overcome Segmented Identities. Here Is A Book That Needs To Be Read By Sociologists, Social Activists And All Those Who Celebrate Criticality And Reflexivity.

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848609167

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Undoing Culture by Mike Featherstone Pdf

Written with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization. Against many orthodox postmodernist accounts,the author argues that it is wrong to regard our present state of fragmentation and dislocation as an epochal break. Existing interdependencies and power balances are not so easily broken down. Nonetheless some important cultural changes have occurred since World War II. In particular, the book examines some of the processes which have uncoupled culture from the social; the erosion of the ideal of the heroic life in the face of the onslaught from consumerism and the deformation of culture; and the rise of new forms of identity development. It explains why culture has gained a more significant role in everyday life and also why it has come to preoccupy the Academy in recent years. Mike Featherstone looks at the effects of the multiplication of cultural goods and images on our ability to read culture and develop fixed meanings and relationships. He highlights the importance of the global in attempting to cope with the objective difficulties of cultural overproduction. The book concludes that the rise of non-Western nation-states with different cultural frames produces different reactions of modernity, making it more appropriate to refer to global modernities.

Author : Judit Bokser de Liwerant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004154421

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Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism by Judit Bokser de Liwerant Pdf

This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu.The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches that range from political science to sociology and from art and literature to demography in order to offer the reader a multidimensional and multifocal analysis of the diverse constitutional elements of the Jewish experience. Using as its point of departure the wide horizon of historical trajectories and current challenges, the articles analyze the transnational, regional and local processes that inform the different Jewish Diasporas and Israel. Simultaneously, its content provides a snapshot of the current state of research on collective identity building processes and a lively analysis of the challenges posed by cultural diversity and primordial and civic belongings in the framework of political transitions, as well as new and old forms of expressing through cultural creativity individual and collective identities. This volume is also available in paperback.

Author : Johan Meuleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135788285

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Islam in the Era of Globalization by Johan Meuleman Pdf

Globalization, modernity and identity are fundamental issues in contemporary Islam and Islamic Studies. This collection of essays reflects the wide diversity that characterises contemporary Islamic Studies. The case studies cover regions stretching from China and Southeast Asia to diaspora communities in the Caribbean and Tajikistan. There is significant participation of intellectual voices from all areas concerned, providing a real contribution to the academic exchange between the Muslim and the Euro-American worlds.

Author : Scott Lash,Jonathan Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0631175857

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Modernity and Identity by Scott Lash,Jonathan Friedman Pdf

Modernity and Identity is a groundbreaking collective work which announces a radical new departure within contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism. While dominant conceptions of both modernism and postmodernism are centered around motions of statis and fixity, for most of the otherwise quite diverse writers in this book, modernity is a matter of movement, of flux, of change and of unpredictability. Modernity and postmodernity are shown to mean, not the 'end of the subject' but the transformation and creation of new forms of subjectivity. Anthropological concepts are brought squarely into the heart of the modernity controversies, which are then recast in the context of tradition, globalization and of the crisis of identity in a newly de-centred world system.

Author : John Foran,David Lane,Andreja Zivkovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134003266

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Revolution in the Making of the Modern World by John Foran,David Lane,Andreja Zivkovic Pdf

Featuring contributions from leading thinkers on revolution, it combines theoretical concerns with case studies of individual revolutions to question whether ideas of revolution are still relevant in the postmodern and globalized world of the twenty-first century.

Author : Jorge Larrain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745667515

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Identity and Modernity in Latin America by Jorge Larrain Pdf

In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships. Drawing on a large body of work across a vast historical and geographical range, he offers an innovative and wide-ranging account of the cultural transformations and processes of modernization that have occurred in Latin America since colonial times. The book begins with a theoretical discussion of the concepts of modernity and identity. In contrast to theories which present modernity and identity in Latin America as mutually excluding phenomena, the book shows their continuity and interconnection. It also traces historically the respects in which the Latin American trajectory to modernity differs from or converges with other trajectories, using this as a basis to explore specific elements of Latin America's culture and modernity today. The originality of Larrain's approach lies in the wide coverage and combination of sources drawn from the social sciences, history and literature. The volume relates social commentaries, literary works and media developments to the periods covered, to the changing social end economic structure, and to changes in the prevailing ideologies. This book will appeal to second and third-year undergraduates and Masters level students doing courses in sociology, cultural studies and Latin American history, politics and literature. .

Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803983220

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Global Culture by Mike Featherstone Pdf

In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state? Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system. Will the intensification of global contact produce increasing tolerance of other cultures? Or will an integrating culture produce sharper reactions in the form of fundamentalist and nationalist movements? The contributors explore the emergence of `third cultures', such as international law, the financial markets and media conglomerates, as

Author : Jonah Steinberg
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807834077

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Isma'ili Modern by Jonah Steinberg Pdf

The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic f

Author : Albert J. Paolini
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 155587875X

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Navigating Modernity by Albert J. Paolini Pdf

"Paolini is concerned with the connections among postcolonialism, globalization, and modernity, and he offers one of the first detailed statements of those connections to be undertaken in the field of IR. Focusing on the Third World, and particularly sub-Saharan Africa, he questions dominant notions of identity and subjectivity in the social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 145290006X

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Modernity At Large by Arjun Appadurai Pdf

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666488

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Modernity and Self-Identity by Anthony Giddens Pdf

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to-day social life having profound implications for personal activities. The self becomes a 'reflexive project', sustained through a revisable narrative of self identity. The reflexive project of the self, the author seeks to show, is a form of control or mastery which parallels the overall orientation of modern institutions towards 'colonising the future'. Yet it also helps promote tendencies which place that orientation radically in question - and which provide the substance of a new political agenda for late modernity. In this book Giddens concerns himself with themes he has often been accused of unduly neglecting, including especially the psychology of self and self-identity. The volumes are a decisive step in the development of his thinking, and will be essential reading for students and professionals in the areas of social and political theory, sociology, human geography and social psychology.

Author : Jonathan Friedman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803986386

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Cultural Identity and Global Process by Jonathan Friedman Pdf

This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture. Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality. With examples taken from a rich variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts of historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of world market and local cultural

Author : Jorge Larrain
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745667492

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Ideology and Cultural Identity by Jorge Larrain Pdf

In this book Jorge Larrain discusses three of the most important concepts in the social sciences: ideology, reason and cultural identity.

Author : Scott Lash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0631175857

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Modernity and Identity by Scott Lash Pdf