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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... abstraction, tableaux of life Mapping an alternative method Levels of analytical abstraction Levels of integration Conclusion Notes xi 1 11 13 14 17 20 33 38 43 46 48 50 54 58 61 62 65 69 73 80 83 95 96 PART II Rethinking Formations of ...
... abstraction of temporality, spatiality and embodiment across human history, layers of abstraction that overlie and reframe prior ways of being. This analysis is intended to provide a schematic framework for under- standing the changing ...
... abstraction of the state than the abstraction across time and embodiment of polity - communities . He did this ... analysis . Mirroring the limits of Max Weber's methodological individualism , this was the develop- ment of ...
... abstract register . In this sense , a social formation was a community - polity in all its historical specificity ... analytical abstraction . At the level of empirical analysis , a nation or global community , or even a kinship group ...
... abstracts from those life-ways and therefore subtly, or not so subtly, changes their meaning. (This crucial point is developed and qualified in the first section of the next chapter 'Figures of abstraction ... analysis, the point is not ...
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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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