
Borderlines in a Globalized World
New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 31. March 2002
Book
Hardback
XVIII, 241 pages
978-1-4020-0515-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
2002 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen
XVIII, 241 p. 2 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4020-0515-2 (9781402005152)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-0940-8
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G. Preyer | Mathias Bös
Borderlines in a Globalized World
New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System
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12/2010
Springer
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Content
From the contents:
ntroduction.- Borderlines in Time of Globalization: New Theoretical Perspective.- I: Reconceptionalizations of the Global: Borderlines in the World-System.- II: Defining Borderlines in the World-System: The Emergence of New Memberships.- III: The Global and the Local: The Collapse and Reconstruction of Borderlines.- Index.- Contributors.
ntroduction.- Borderlines in Time of Globalization: New Theoretical Perspective.- I: Reconceptionalizations of the Global: Borderlines in the World-System.- II: Defining Borderlines in the World-System: The Emergence of New Memberships.- III: The Global and the Local: The Collapse and Reconstruction of Borderlines.- Index.- Contributors.