UID:
almahu_9948635339602882
Format:
1 online resource (216 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526105318
Series Statement:
Manchester Political Studies
Content:
Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in human history. Building on Castoriadis’s theory of social imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power.
Note:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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Includes index.
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Part I: Theoretical engagements in civilisational analysis --1. Civilisations debated: uses and critiques of ‘civilisation’ --2. Currents and perspectives in contemporary civilisational analysis --3. Counterpoints, critiques, dialogues --4. Inter-civilisational engagement: imaginaries, power, connected worlds --Part II: Studies in inter-civilisational engagement --5. Salt water horizons: seas, oceans and civilisations --6. Pacific imaginaries: ontologies of connection, reconstruction of memory --7. Engagement in the cross-currents of history: perspectives on civilisation in Latin America --8. Japan in engagement and the discourses of civilisation --9. Conclusion --Index.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Smith, Jeremy. Debating civilisations: interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2017, ISBN 9781526105288
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526105318
URL:
http://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526105318/9781526105318.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526105318
