Interpreting Globalization

Polish Perspectives on Culture in the Globalized World
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44378-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 361, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Central European Value Studies

The main hypothesis of the volume is that globalization is a cultural phenomenon. Therefore, the book offers an explanation of how globalization emerged from cultural exchange between groups, nations, and religions. The articles in this volume register the thematically multi-dimensional and theoretically complex contribution of Polish research on globalization. Polish debates on globalization, as presented in this book, on the one hand reflect international disputes and controversies, and on the other hand address local issues. As their crucial feature, the articles in this volume exhibit a special sensitivity to historical and contemporary cultural contexts. They do not approach globalization as an abstract process, instead exploring it through the lens of clearly defined factors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koczanowicz, Leszek

Ferenski, Piotr Jakub

Panciuchin, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Thinking Globally

Piotr Jakub Ferenski, Leszek Koczanowicz and Joanna Panciuchin

PART 1

Cultural Theory of Globalization

1 Generality and Universality in Globalization

Leszek Kopciuch

2 The Status of Global Studies and Transformations in the Social Sciences

Franciszek Czech

3 Musicology and Globalization

Bozena Muszkalska

PART 2

Cultural History of Globalization

4 Towards Historical Performatics?

Gesture as the Origin of Speech. A Case Study

Miroslaw Kocur

5 “There Is Neither Barbarian Nor Greek…”

On the Tools of the Globalist Interpretation of History in Medieval Thought. An Example of the Reception of New-Testamental Ideas in the Historiography of the 11th and 12th Centuries

Stanislaw Rosik

6 Were the Natural Sciences Global in the 19th Century? The Case of Charles Darwin

Piotr Badyna

7 The Spanish “Crisis of the 17th Century”

Magdalena Barbaruk

8 Nation-Forming Processes in Latin America

A New Integration Model?

Tadeusz Paleczny

PART 3

Contemporary Culture and Globalization

9 From Córdoba to Tora Bora

Globalization in the World of Islam, the World of Islam vis-à-vis Globalization

Daniel Bockowski

10 Locality and Globality: Various Dimensions of Money

Adam Nobis

11 Global Paths of Cultural Institutions

Attendance, Participation, or Education

Karolina Golinowska

12 The Political Role of Cities: A Global Perspective

Piotr Jakub Ferenski

13 One Wrong Turn: Doug Rickard in the World of Google Street View

Rafal Nahirny

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leszek Koczanowicz Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science and Cultural Studies at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the author and editor of thirteen books and numerous articles in Polish and English.

Piotr Jakub Ferenski works at the University of Wroclaw and is the author of nearly 120 publications, an art critic and exhibition curator. He conducts research in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and in South and North America.

Joanna Panciuchin is Ph.D. Candidate of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw and of Pedagogy at the University of Lower Silesia. She is the co-editor of the scientific journal Culture - History - Globalization and has published in Cultural Studies and PRAXEMA. Journal of Visual Semiotics.