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Borderlines in a Globalized World
New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System, Social Indicators Research Series 9
ISBN/EAN: 9789048159796
Umbreit-Nr.: 972756
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xviii, 241 S., 2 s/w Illustr., 241 p. 2 illus.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 06.12.2010
Auflage: 1/2002
- Zusatztext
- Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. To understand these contemporary developments this book employs innovative concepts, strategies of research, and explanations. Globalization is a metaphor for different borderstructures, new borderlines, and conditions of membership, which emerge in a global world-system. As a world-system expands it incorporates new territories and new peoples. The process of incorporation creates frontiers or boundaries of the world-system. These frontiers or boundary zones are the locus of resistance to incorporation, ethnogenesis, ethnic transformation, and ethnocide.
- Kurztext
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras