This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation. It addresses a theoretical void in global studies by attending to the co-constituted process through which modern subjectivities and global processes emerge and interact. The editors outline a key problem in global studies, which is a lack of engagement between the local/particular/individual and the ‘universalising’ processes in which they are situated. The volume deals with this concern with contributions from historical sociologists, poststructuralist and postcolonial scholars and by focusing in the Middle East, religion in global modernity and non-human subjectivities.
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This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation.
1. Chapter 1 Why Study Modern Subjectivities in World Society? An Introduction by Dietrich Jung and Stephan Stetter.- 2. Modern Subjectivities and World Political Order: Differentiation, Inclusion/Exclusion, and the Evolution of the International by Stephan Stetter.- 3. Modern Subjectivity and the Emergence of Global Modernity: Syntax and Semantics of Modern Times by Dietrich Jung.- 4. Globalization and Nationalist Subjectivities by Siniša Malešević.- 5. Colonial Globality, Postcolonial Subjectivities in the Middle East by Pinar Bilgin.- 6. The Everyday Production of Modern Subjectivity in World Society: Global Structures Meet Local Practices in Palestine by Jan Busse.- 7. Defiant Subjects: Religion in World Polity Theory and Public Discourse by Paul Bramadat.- 8. Modern Subjectivities and Religions in a Post-Westphalian World Society: Reconstructing the Universal through Lived Particularities by Peter Beyer.- 9. Modern Subjectivities, Religious Belief, and Irony in Everyday Life by George M. Thomas.- 10. In-between Machines: The Global, Local, and Automobile Subjectivity Formation by Martin Ledstrup.- 11. Incorporating Nonhuman Subjectivity into World Society. The Case for Extending Personhood to Plants by Thomas J. Puleo.
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This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation. It addresses a theoretical void in global studies by attending to the co-constituted process through which modern subjectivities and global processes emerge and interact. The editors outline a key problem in global studies, which is a lack of engagement between the local/particular/individual and the ‘universalising’ processes in which they are situated. The volume deals with this concern with contributions from historical sociologists, poststructuralist and postcolonial scholars and by focusing in the Middle East, religion in global modernity and non-human subjectivities. Dietrich Jung is Professor and Head of the Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Stephan Stetter is Professor of World Politics and Conflict Studies at the Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany/EU and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. 
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“Subjectivities were constitutive of the international, and came to underpin globalisation. The book’s mixing of social theory with empirics in particular from Middle Eastern and religious studies succeeds in opening this much understudied topic to a potentially wide readership.” (Iver Neumann, author of Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality)“Insisting on the concept of world society as its starting point, this book explores the multifaceted nature of global-local interplays and the formation of modern actors, taking into account both the historicity of these relations and the conflictual and alternative forms they take. It makes a valuable contribution to the developing literature that establishes a ‘missing link’ between international relations, global studies and international political sociology.” (Didem Buhari-Gulmez, Associate Professor, lzmir University of Economics, Turkey)
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Explores globalization through theoretical and empirical lenses Contributes to a better understanding of the role of individuals in constituting both globalization and modernity Combines theoretical rigor based on social and critical theories of global modernity with concrete empirical examples from the fields of Middle East studies, religious studies and the study of non-human subjectivities
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ISBN
9783319907338
Publisert
2018-08-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer International Publishing AG
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Biographical note

Dietrich Jung is Professor and Head of the Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Stephan Stetter is Professor of World Politics and Conflict Studies at the Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany/EU and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen