| Futures of Modernity: Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice Contributor(s): Heinlein, Michael (Editor), Kropp, Cordula (Editor), Neumer, Judith (Editor) |
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ISBN: 383762076X ISBN-13: 9783837620764 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Political Science | Globalization - Social Science | Future Studies |
| Dewey: 303.482 |
| LCCN: 2012489747 |
| Series: Sociology |
| Physical Information: 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of "reflexive" (Ulrich Beck), "multiple" (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), "entangled" (Shalini Randeria) and "global" (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and immediately clash in social action: a process of cosmopolitanization in which "the global" is localized and "the local" is globalized in radical new ways. In this book, an international selection of prominent critical thinkers address this premise and provide their interpretations of imminent challenges, concomitant social dynamics and political implications. With contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, Edgar Grande, Maarten Hajer, Ronald Hitzler, Wolf Lepenies, Anna Tsing, Angela McRobbie, Bruno Latour, Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Natan Sznaider, Anja Wei and Yunxiang Yan. |
Contributor Bio(s): Romhild, Regina: - Regina ROmhild is professor of European ethnology at Humboldt-UniversitAt in Berlin, Germany. |