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Thinking globally : a global studies reader /
In this accessible text, Mark Juergensmeyer, a pioneer in global studies, provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of global studies from regional, topical, and theoretical perspectives. Each of the twenty compact chapters in Thinking Globally features Juergensmeyer's own lucid i...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THINKING GLOBALLY; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface: A Friendly Introduction to Global Studies; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1. Thinking Globally; "Globalization: A Contested Concept"; "The World Is Ten Years Old"; "Approaches to Globalization"; "How Globalization Went Bad"; Further Reading; 2. Globalization over Time; "Globalization: Long Term Process or New Era in Human Affairs?"; "Imperial Trajectories"; "On the Study of Social Change"; "Movements and Patterns: Environments of Global History"; Further Reading; PART II: THE MARCH OF GLOBALIZATION, BY REGION.
- 3. Africa: The Rise of Ethnic Politics in a Global World"The Hidden Story of a Journey"; "Slavery"; "African Diaspora Religions"; "Thinking Globally about African Religion"; "The Cycle of 'State-Ethnicity-State' in African Politics"; Further Reading; 4. The Middle East: Religious Politics and Antiglobalization; "The Ideology of the Horizons"; "Thinking Globally about Islam"; "Are Middle East Conflicts More Religious?"; "Religion and Politics in Arab Transitions"; Further Reading; 5. South and Central Asia: Global Labor and Asian Culture; "Religions of the Silk Road"; "The Early Mongols."
- "Hinduism""Revolt, the Modern State, and Colonized Subjects, 1848-1885"; "Outposts of the Global Information Economy"; Further Reading; 6. East Asia: Global Economic Empires; "The Great Divergence"; "The 21st Century Will Be Asian"; "Economic Growth in Asia"; "Is the Rise of China Sustainable?"; Further Reading; 7. Southeast Asia and the Pacific: The Edges of Globalization; "The Indianized States of Southeast Asia"; "Imagined Communities"; "Vietnam, 1945-2000: The Global Dimensions of Decolonization, War, Revolution, and Refugee Outflows"; "Asian Connections."
- "Pacific Islands Religious Communities"Further Reading; 8. Europe and Russia: Nationalism and Transnationalism; "The 1850s as Turning Point: The Birth of Globalization?"; "The Nation"; "Citizens, Residents, and Aliens in a Changing World"; "Soviet Ideology and Foreign Interventions in the Global Cold War"; "Citizenship and National Identity"; Further Reading; 9. The Americas: Development Strategies; "Discovering the New World Columbus Created"; "The Reasons for the Victory"; "Explaining the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States."
- "Surviving Globalization in Three Latin American Communities"Further Reading; PART III: TRANSNATIONAL GLOBAL ISSUES; 10. Global Forces in the New World Order; "Jihad vs. McWorld"; "A Multipolar, Multicivilizational World"; "Empire"; "Global Cities"; Further Reading; 11. The Erosion of the Nation-State; "The Cartographic Illusion"; "The Westfailure System"; "After the Nation-State-What?"; "The Transnational State"; Further Reading; 12. Religious Politics and the New World Order; "The Twenty-first Century as God's Century"; "Religion in the New Global Order"; "Al Qaeda and the New Terrorists."