Futures of Modernity - Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice (Paperback)

Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of "reflexive" (Ulrich Beck), "multiple" (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), "entangled" (Shalini Randeria) and "global" (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and immediately clash in social action: a process of cosmopolitanization in which "the global" is localized and "the local" is globalized in radical new ways. In this book, an international selection of prominent critical thinkers address this premise and provide their interpretations of imminent challenges, concomitant social dynamics and political implications.With contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, Edgar Grande, Maarten Hajer, Ronald Hitzler, Wolf Lepenies, Anna Tsing, Angela McRobbie, Bruno Latour, Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Natan Sznaider, Anja Weiss and Yunxiang Yan.

General

Imprint:	Transcript Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Sociology
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	October 2012
Editors:	Michael Heinlein • Cordula Kropp • Judith Neumer • Angelika Poferl • Regina Roemhild
Dimensions:	226 x 151 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-3-8376-2076-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > Social forecasting, futurology Books > History > General
LSN:	3-8376-2076-X
Barcode:	9783837620764

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