Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back inPine Forge Press, 20.04.2006 - 392 Seiten `Paul James has written a magnificent account of the world′s current condition, one that highlights the complexities and contradictions with which people, communities, and nations must contend and that does so in a compelling and creative style. Stressing the interaction between global and local forces, his writing style is lively and compelling as well as peppered with a wide range of citations, from Woman′s Day to the Cambodian Daily (on the same page!)′ - James N Rosenau, University Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism establishes a new basis for understanding the changing nature of polity and community and offers unprecedented attention to these dominant trends. Paul James charts the contradictions and tensions we all encounter in an era of increasing globalization, from genocide and terrorism to television and finance capital. Globalism is treated as an uneven and layered process of spatial expansion, not simply one of disorder, fragmentation or rupture. Nor is it simply a force of homogenization. Nationalism is taken seriously as a continuing and important formation of contemporary identity and politics. James rewrites the modernism theories of the nation-state without devolving into the postmodernist assertion that all is invention or surface gloss. Tribalism is given the attention it has long warranted and is analyzed as a continuing and changing formation of social life, from the villages of Rwanda to the cities of the West. Theoretically adept and powerfully argued, this is the first comprehensive analysis that brings these crucial themes of contemporary life together. |
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... Ernest Gellner Tracks of social power: Michael Mann Patterns of practice: Pierre Bourdieu Structures of agency: Anthony Giddens Unstable patterns of meaning: Michel Foucault Notes 4 Theory in the Shadow of Terror Figures of abstraction ...
... Ernest Gellner's Plough, Sword and Book.5 However, except for its generalizing methodological pretensions, Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism is intended to be much more modest. Rather than sweeping across history, it uses anthropology ...
... Ernest Gellner, Michael Mann, Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Michel Foucault. Even as I am critical of their approaches, they provide us with a wealth of provocative writing. Chapter 3 elaborates their methods of analysis, and ...
... Ernest Gellner, Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History, London, Collins Harvill, 1988. 6 The name of an Australian rock-music band in the 1990s, part of the revival of interest in tribalism. 7 Elizabeth G. Traube ...
... Ernest Gellner.19 They each in their various ways attempt to understand the structures of our society and to research the relation between structure and culture.20 I intend to draw synthetically upon the work of these theorists in a way ...
Inhalt
1 | |
11 | |
13 | |
43 | |
65 | |
Rethinking Formations of Practice and Being | 101 |
Chapter 5 Constituting Customary Community | 103 |
Chapter 6 Communication and Exchange Money and Writing | 133 |
Rewriting the History of the Present | 205 |
Chapter 9 State Formation | 207 |
Chapter 10 Nation Formation | 231 |
Chapter 11 Global Formation | 262 |
Chapter 12 Conclusion | 292 |
Glossary | 318 |
Select Bibliography | 327 |
Index | 340 |
Chapter 7 Time and Space Calendars and Maps | 158 |
Chapter 8 Bodies and Symbols Blood and Milk | 179 |
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