Appadurai / Gaonkar / Kramer Fear of Small Numbers

An Essay on the Geography of Anger
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8754-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

Argues that the many forms of ethnic violence around the world, both internal and transnational, need to be seen in the context of globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Appadurai, Arjun

Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar

Kramer, Jane

Lee, Benjamin

Warner, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

1. From Ethnocide to Ideocide 1

2. The Civilization of Clashes 15

3. Globalization and Violence 35

4. Fear of Small Numbers 49

5. Our Terrorists, Ourselves 87

6. Grassroots Globalization in the Era of Ideocide 115

Bibliography 139

Index 143

Über Autor(innen)

Arjun Appadurai is the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences at The New School, where he is also Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives. His books include Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization and the collection Globalization, also published by Duke University Press. He is a cofounder of the journal Public Culture, founder of the nonprofit PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action, and Research) in Mumbai, cofounder and codirector of ING (Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization), and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as a consultant or advisor to a wide range of public and private organizations, including the Ford, Rockefeller, and MacArthur foundations; UNESCO; the World Bank; and the National Science Foundation.