Overlapping territories : Asian voices on culture and civilization / edited by Bambang Sugiharto and Roy Voragen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sugiharto, I. Bambang, 1956-

Voragen, Roy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The post-Cold War situation has given way to a new and unprecedented constellation of global interrelations. The power constellation today is not only multi-polar, but rather, 'chaotic': its configuration keeps shifting and it is determined not simply by new emerging super powers (such as China, India or Brazil), but also by any seemingly small events (such as Wikileaks or the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers) in non-linear modes of interaction. The interdependency between communities thro...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; OF BORDERS, DEATH AND FOOTPRINTS; COSMOPOLITANISM, BETWEEN COSMOPOLIS AND CHAOSMOPOLIS; THE CLAIM OF TRUTH AND THE CLAIM OF FREEDOM IN RELIGION; A CASE FOR PLURALISM IN A RELATIVISTIC ENVIRONMENT; HISTORY AS THE BURDEN OF INHERITANCE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR JUSTICE; THE BEAUTIFUL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL PLURALISM AND CULTURAL DIALOGUE; TRACING A CULTURAL FOLD IN AN ASIAN CONTEXT; EXPOSING THE HIDDEN DIMENSION OF GENDER IN DISCOURSES ON CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE; GARUDA INDONESIA; JAVANESE-ISLAM VALUE CONSENSUS, REMARKS ON VALUE PLURALISM

CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY IN POST-SOEHARTO INDONESIABIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-177).

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-43576-4

9786613435767

1-4438-3109-3

OCLC:

824107014