A World Beyond Difference: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization

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John Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 240 pages
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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Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 The Tradition of Rational Utopianism
11
3 The Cultural Contradictions of Globalization
35
4 AntiGlobalization from Below
57
5 Human Rights Pluralism and Universalism
82
6 Postmodernisms Revolt Against Order
102
7 The New NeoMarxism
122
8 Paradigms of Postcolonial Liberation
144
9 Conclusion
168
Notes
179
References
204
Index
213
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About the author (2008)

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).

Bibliographic information

TitleA World Beyond Difference: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization
AuthorRonald Niezen
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN140513710X, 9781405137102
Length240 pages
  
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