A world beyond difference : cultural identity in the age of globalization / / Ronald Niezen

• Autore: Niezen Ronald
• Pubblicazione: Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2004]; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Human rights; Group identity; Globalization; Ethnicity; Cultural pluralism; Civilization
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [204]-212) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The tradition of rational utopianism -- The cultural contradictions of globalization -- (Anti)globalization from below -- Human rights pluralism and universalism -- Postmodernism's revolt against order -- The new neo-Marxism -- Paradigms of postcolonial liberation -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 a
• Titolo autorizzato: A world beyond difference
• ISBN: 1-280-19853-2; 9786610198535; 0-470-76176-8; 1-4051-2690-6; 0-470-77658-7; 1-4051-3710-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830084703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II