"Globalization" and "Identity" are an explosive combination, demonstrated by recent outbursts of communalist violence in many parts of the world. Their varying articulations highlight the paradox that accelerating global flows of goods, persons and images go together with determined efforts towards closure, emphasis on cultural difference and fixing of identities. This collection explores this paradox of 'flow' and 'closure' through a series of detailed case studies in comparative perspective.
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"This mixture of the empirical and the theoretical as well as the emphasis on globalization as an ambivalent situation of flow and closure are the main strengths of this volume and as such it serves as a useful introduction to the topic, not least to those are put off by the overly theoretical approaches usually associated with the subject matter." John Walliss, Bookends
"The immense merit of this volume to readers who are not steeped in the debates about globalization is that it makes the subject relevant to concerns widely shared in the world today. It is also easily comprehensible, with its, on the whole, enlightening case-studies." Patrick Chabal, International Affairs
" With a rich confluence of diverse empirical material with social theory, the writers in this volume have made a strong and timely anthology for those interested in globalization or identity studies" Matthew Kurtz, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Globalization" and "Identity" are an explosive combination, demonstrated by recent outbursts of communalist violence in many parts of the world. Their varying articulations highlight the paradox that accelerating global flows of goods, persons and images go together with determined efforts towards closure, emphasis on cultural difference and fixing of identities. This collection explores this paradox of 'flow' and 'closure' through a series of detailed case studies in comparative perspective.
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messy exuberance, empowered communes, ethnocidal violence, nameable groups, pentecostalist churches, pentecostalist discourse, pentecostalist preachers, witchcraft discourses, maize husks, family reunion rights, male personhood, interpretative control, redemptive societies, four communes, ghost worship, second arrondissement, cocoa cultivation, union citizenship, diamond traders, cultural fundamentalism, ethnic body, forest societies, third country nationals, diamond smuggling, deterritorialized nation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Soviet studies today is a field in search of a territory, one whose boundaries have temporarily designated as the 'post-Soviet space'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
messy exuberance, empowered communes, ethnocidal violence, nameable groups, pentecostalist churches, pentecostalist discourse, pentecostalist preachers, witchcraft discourses, maize husks, family reunion rights, male personhood, interpretative control, redemptive societies, four communes, ghost worship, second arrondissement, cocoa cultivation, union citizenship, diamond traders, cultural fundamentalism, ethnic body, forest societies, third country nationals, diamond smuggling, deterritorialized nation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Four Communes, University of Chicago Press, Civil Code, Cambridge University Press, Morality Society, Oxford University Press, Walter Benjamin, Eighteen Lords, Public Culture, World War, Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, Maastricht Treaty, Mami Water, Middle East, Peter Geschiere, European Court of Justice, Los Angeles, University of California Press, European Convention, Father Boilat, Columbia University Press, East Asia New!
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- Exploring the City by Ulf Hannerz on page 301, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Cultural Identity and Global Process (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Jonathan Friedman in Front Matter, page 174, and page 301
- Worlds Apart by J. C. Miller in Front Matter, page 175, and page 208
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan in Front Matter, and page 302
- Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael Taussig on page 175, and page 209
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- Religions in Global Society by Peter Beyer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, And Modernity in the Republic of Georgia (Culture and Society After Socialism) by Mathijs Pelkmans in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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