Borderlines in a Globalized World

New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System
Herausgegeben:Preyer, Gerhard; Bös, Mathias

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. To understand these contemporary developments this book employs innovative concepts, strategies of research, and explanations. Globalization is a metaphor for different borderstructures, new borderlines, and conditions of membership, which emerge in a global world-system. As a world-system expands it incorporates new territories and new peoples. The process of incorporation creates frontiers or boundaries of the world-system. These frontiers or boundary zones are the locus of resistance to incorporation, ethnogenesis, ethnic transformation, and ethnocide.

Produktdetails

• Social Indicators Research Series 9
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-481-5979-6
• Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9789048159796
• ISBN-10: 9048159792
• Artikelnr.: 32026555

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:
ntroduction.- Borderlines in Time of Globalization: New Theoretical Perspective.- I: Reconceptionalizations of the Global: Borderlines in the World-System.- II: Defining Borderlines in the World-System: The Emergence of New Memberships.- III: The Global and the Local: The Collapse and Reconstruction of Borderlines.- Index.- Contributors.