Borderlines in a globalized world : new perspectives in a sociology of the world-system /
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 heterogen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic,
[2002]
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| Series: | Social indicators research series ;
volume 9. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 239 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401709408 (electronic bk.) 9401709408 (electronic bk.) |