Ronald Niezen

A World Beyond Difference (eBook, PDF)

Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405137102
• Artikelnr.: 38285859

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"Debates about globalization have become stereotyped.Universalists hope for one world united under rational law;postmodernists and their postcolonial and neo-Marxist allies dreamof a heterotopia of autonomous free agents. In this book, RonaldNiezen steps outside this sterile dualism to show how each sidesubscribes to the same Western utopian ideals, which are thenimposed on the facts. Case material from his wide experienceillustrates the failings of ideologically generated theories andoffers a more realistic approach to the actual experience ofglobalization. Elegantly written, free of cant, empiricallygrounded, theoretically sophisticated, and passionately argued,this brilliant book is required reading."

Charles Lindholm, Boston University

"This volume is a thought-provoking, intellectuallyexciting analysis of the quest for a global borderless society ...The author presents many inspired and thought-provoking challengesto the reader and one cannot but be impressed by the logic of hisarguments." Cambridge University Press