Borderlines in a Globalized World

New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-90-481-5979-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 241 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

Reihe: Social Indicators Research Series

Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. To understand these contemporary developments this book employs innovative concepts, strategies of research, and explanations. Globalization is a metaphor for different borderstructures, new borderlines, and conditions of membership, which emerge in a global world-system. As a world-system expands it incorporates new territories and new peoples. The process of incorporation creates frontiers or boundaries of the world-system. These frontiers or boundary zones are the locus of resistance to incorporation, ethnogenesis, ethnic transformation, and ethnocide.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bös, Mathias

Preyer, G.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

From the contents:
ntroduction.- Borderlines in Time of Globalization: New Theoretical Perspective.- I: Reconceptionalizations of the Global: Borderlines in the World-System.- II: Defining Borderlines in the World-System: The Emergence of New Memberships.- III: The Global and the Local: The Collapse and Reconstruction of Borderlines.- Index.- Contributors.