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Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds
Social Transformations
Edited by:
- Ulrike Schuerkens - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Université Rennes 2, France
March 2004 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
How are global forces impacting on local lifestyles? Where does the personal stand in relation to globalization? Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds explores these questions using a mixture of sociological and anthropological analysis and case study methods. Demonstrating the tensions between retaining cultural integrity in the face of the levelling processes associated with modernity, this book: locates the problems of globalization and localization in the appropriate anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the relationship between culture and identity; and explores the varieties of modernity.
Willfried Spohn
Preface
Ulrike Schuerkens
Social Transformations Between Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds
Ulrike Schuerkens
The Sociological and Anthropological Study of Globalization and Localization
PART ONE: SYSTEMATIC COMPARISONS ACROSS EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES
Lauren Langman
Culture, Identity, and Hegemony
Helmuth Berking
`Ethnicity is Everywhere'
Willfried Spohn
Multiple Modernity, Nationalism and Religion - A Global Perspective
Ulrike Schuerkens
Structural Change in Western Africa as a Legacy of European Colonialism
Shalini Randeria
Glocalization of Law
Christine M[um]uller
Knowledge between Globalization and Localization
PART TWO: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES
Eric Popkin
Transnational Migration and Development in Postwar Peripheral States
Nina Bandelj
Particularizing the Global
Marina Padr[ti}ao Temudo and Ulrich Schiefer
Disintegration and Resilience of Agrarian Societies in Africa - the Importance of Social and Genetic Resources
Johanna Schmidt
Paradise Lost? Social Change and Fa'afafine in Samoa
George Morgan
Autochthonous Australian Syncretism
