Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System (2002) (Social Indicators Research Series #9)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2002

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9789401709408
Related ISBNs:
9781402005152
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
G. Preyer
Edited by:
Mathias Bös

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