Civilizational identity : the production and reproduction of "civilizations" in international relations / edited by Martin Hall and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Martin, 1967-

Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus, 1972-

Series:

Culture and religion in international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Civilization--Philosophy.

Civilization.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

As a way of improvising on the study of civilizations in world politics, the volume focuses on those social and political "practices "through which notions of civilizational identity are reproduced in a variety of contexts ranging from the global credit regime to theological debates about modernity to the 'war on terrorism'. The contributors to the volume explore the ways in which practices of civilizational identity give rise to the "effect "of a solid object called a 'civilization, ' even though this object is itself nothing more than an ensemble of social practices.

Contents:

Discourses of civilizational identity / Jacinta O'Hagan

Civilizations as actors : a transactional account / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

Discussion / Hayward R. Alker

Civilizations, postorientalism and Islam / Mustapha Kamal Pasha

Not waiting for the barbarians / Mark B. Salter

Civilizations, neo-Gandhianism and the Hindu self / Catarina Kinnvall

Discussion : American empire and civilizational practice / Daniel H. Nexon

Global standards of market civilization / Brett Bowden and Leonard Seabrooke

The heterarchic Umma : reading Islamic civilization from within / Peter Mandaville

Deconstructing the Eurocentric clash of civilizations : de-westernizing the West by acknowledging the dialogue of civilizations / John M. Hobson

The status of women and the ordering of human societies along the stages of civilization / Ann Towns

Discussion : the politics of civilizational talk / Jacqueline Best

Pathways to civilization / Yale H. Ferguson

Toward a fourth generation in civilizational scholarship / Martin Hall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-231) and index.

ISBN:

9781403975447

1403975442

OCLC:

122291761

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