Varieties of world-making : beyond globalization / edited by Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karagiannis, Nathalie.

Wagner, Peter, 1956 September 18-

Series:

Studies in social and political thought ; 14.

Studies in social and political thought ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

viii, 304 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Current debates on globalization often have the counter-intuitive effect of undermining the sense of a common world. Globalization is seen predominantly as an anonymous, actorless process against which a defensive reaction is the best possible. In contrast, Varieties of World-Making aims to move attention towards diverse projects of giving meaning to the world as unity, and the accompanying idea that there is a valuable plurality of ways of knowing these projects of world-making. The contributors are guided by such questions as: Can several worlds co-exist? Can a world be made from human social bonds? How can we frame a world in common?

The emphasis on world-making sets this volume against the dominant idea of neo-liberal and mass-cultural globalization as running its course and against the revival of theories of conflicts between closed cultural communities. However, the contributors also eschew any facile prescription of a combination of flexibility and reflexivity that will catapult humanity into a free and peaceful cosmopolitan future. Varieties of World-Making starts out from a systematic rethinking of the ways in which human beings relate to each other and to the world by emphasizing the plurality of bonds between them in their experience and their interpretation, and the essays apply this perspective to the varieties of ways in which the contemporary global situation is interpreted across the world.

Contents:

Introduction: Globalization or World-Making? / Nathalie Karagiannis, Peter Wagner 1

Part 1 The Coexistence of Several Worlds

1 Republic or Empire? On the American End and the European Beginning of Politics / Manfred Henningsen 17

2 Latin American Varieties of Modernity / Jorge Larrain 41

3 Multiple Modernities or Global Interconnections: Understanding the Global Post the Colonial / Gurminder K. Bhambra 59

4 Europe, America, China: Contemporary Wars and their Implications for World Orders / Michael C. Davis 74

5 Islam Online: The Internet, Religion and Politics / Eugenia Siapera 90

Part 2 The Bonds that Make a World

6 'In the Name of Politics': Sovereignty, Democracy and the Multitude in India / Dipesh Chakrabarty 111

7 'Horizontal' Connections and Interactions in Global Development / Sandra Halperin 133

8 Multiple Solidarities: Autonomy and Resistance / Nathalie Karagiannis 154

9 The Making and the Unmaking of Europe in its Encounter with Islam: Negotiating French Republicanism and European Islam / Nilufer Gole 173

Part 3 Framing a World

10 Democratic Justice in a Globalizing Age: Thematizing the Problem of the Frame / Nancy Fraser 193

11 Contracting and Founding in Times of Conflict / Charlotte Girard 216

12 Worlds Emerging: Approaches to the Creation and Constitution of the Common / Angelos Mouzakitis 232

13 Imperial Modernism and European World-Making / Peter Wagner 247

14 Global Governance and the Emergence of a 'World Society' / Friedrich Kratochwil 266.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781846310195

1846310199

9781846310201

1846310202

OCLC:

123536454