Geoculture and its social construction : a political-sociological study of religion and ethnicity in Southeast Asia / Zhou Ya ; translated by Bao Su.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhou, Ya, 1975- author.

Standardized Title:

Di yuan wen hua ji qi she hui jian gou. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics--Southeast Asia.

Geopolitics.

Geopolitics--Religious aspects.

Social constructionism--Southeast Asia.

Social constructionism.

Political sociology--Southeast Asia.

Political sociology.

Southeast Asia--Ethnic relations.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Religious life and customs.

Southeast Asia--Foreign relations.

Southeast Asia--Politics and government--1945-.

Physical Description:

vii, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Political-sociological study of religion and ethnicity in Southeast Asia

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2025]

Summary:

"This book is the first monograph in China which systematically analyzes the connotation, attributes, characteristics, construction mechanism, categories, roles and influences of "geo-culture". In the view of international political sociology and international relations, the book analyzes the geo-culture and its social construction with the constructivism theory of Alexander Wendt's "structuralism" and its defects as the theoretical fulcrum and starting point. It has important significance for constructing the theoretical research in current international relations and international political sociology. By analysing the geo-culture at the "national level" and "supranational level" of the countries of the Indo-China Peninsula in Southeast Asia, the author believes that nationality and religion are the most important variables and "ambiguous two dimensions" in the construction of geo-cultural society. There are "three modes of identity relationship" among ethnical identity, religious identity and national political identity. From the perspective of international political sociology, the spiritual values and shared ideas based on religion and nation are like a "cultural gene chain" of a society, which can capable of transcend the times, national boundaries and natural geographical scope, and play a role on constructing geo-cultural and inter-state relations. Therefore, religion and nationality are the social foundations that the political power cannot ignore. Meanwhile, geo-culture is a social construction factor that the international system cannot ignore"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Geoculture : the unignorable challenges to international politics from social traditions

Culture and international politics

Geoculture on the "civilizational fault line"

Studies of the basic geocultural theory

The social construction mechanism of geoculture : in the case of such construction by ethnicity and religion in the Indochina Peninsula

Ethnicity and religion : the fuzzy dual dimensions in the construction of geoculture

Geoculture for the construction of the culture of the international system : from the national level to the supranational level

Geoculture and its construction mechanism : its constitutive role in the theory and practice of international politics and social relations

The Lockean and Kantian cultures that should not be hidden : the social construction from within the actor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Zhou, Ya, 1975- Di yuan wen hua ji qi she hui jian gou. English. Geoculture and its social construction

ISBN:

9781433177194

1433177196

OCLC:

1493444048

Publisher Number:

90101711638