UID:
almafu_9960118895502883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781529213331
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1529213339
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9781529213355
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1529213355
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9781529213317
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1529213312
Series Statement:
Bristol studies in international theory series
Content:
Moving beyond the limits of parochialism, this book develops a truly global perspective on social change. It brings together renowned scholars from across disciplines and provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2021).
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World and state -- Types of organizing the world -- International law -- International conferences -- International organizations -- World state/statehood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society -- Introduction -- Entering the field -- Humanitarian interventions as laboratories of world society -- Humanitarian interventions in world politics -- Researching interventions as laboratories of world society -- Women in Afghanistan as a global cause -- Afghans striving for women's rights and empowerment
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Media of communication, universalism and differentiation -- From adaptation to fusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- Field theory and the global political field -- Global political transformations, 1800s-1960s -- Imperial expansion and war: struggles for succession -- Decolonization and struggles of subversion -- Field theory in comparison -- Notes -- 6 Organization(s) of the World -- Introduction -- Organization and world in the foundation of international organizations -- Organization and organizations
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3 Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing -- Introduction -- Periodization in global history: challenges and shortcomings -- Postcolonial criticism of epoch concepts -- Why periodization is vulnerable -- and unavoidable -- Historicist concepts: Ranke and Droysen -- Comparisons as the basis of periodization -- Comparisons, 'narrative objectives' and periodization in global history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Communication, Differentiation and the Evolution of World Society -- From universal to instantaneous communication
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A laboratory of thinking about global change: the individual chapters -- Conclusion: follow-up questions for future research -- Postscript -- Notes -- 2 Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society -- Introduction -- A reading of global history -- A reading of world society theory -- Large-scale 'epochal' change -- The 'long nineteenth century' -- 'Big' events and 'turning points' -- Beyond arbitrariness: differentiation as heuristic, evolution as theory? -- Conclusion: evolving together -- Notes
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Intro -- Series -- What in the World: Understanding Global Social Change -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: World Society and Its Histories -- The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change -- The global from different disciplinary points of view -- Distortions: modernity, coloniality, Eurocentrism, postcoloniality (and the 'Eurocentrisms' of world society) -- Reflective devices: periodization, epochs and orders -- Problematizing social change in a global perspective
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781529213324
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1529213320
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781529213348
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1529213347
Language:
English
