Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System - Couverture rigide

 
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Synopsis

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.

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9789048159796: Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System

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ISBN 10 :  9048159792 ISBN 13 :  9789048159796
Editeur : Springer, 2010
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