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Global Modernities: 36
Author(s): Mike Featherstone (Editor), Scott Lash (Editor), Roland Robertson (Editor)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 13 Jun. 1995
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0803979479
- ISBN-13: 9780803979475
Book Description
Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation state′ and `national sovereignty′. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`A timely contribution to current debates around globalization theory and an excellent introduction to this complex and contradictory field of study. Globalization theory has not simply supplanted postmodernism, but has rather refocused many of the issues raised by postmodernism towards a more serious reappraisal of the whole question of modernity itself′ – Habitat International
About the Author
Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society.
Roland Robertson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His books include
International Systems and the Modernization of Societies (with J P Nettl, 1968) The Sociological Interpretation of Religion (1970) Meaning and Change: Explorations in the Cultural Sociology of Modern Societies (1978), Religion and Global Order (co-edited with William R Garrett, 1991) and Talcott Parsons: Theorist of Modernity (co-edited with Bryan S Turner
