Global Modernities (Theory, Culture & Society) (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

'Global Modernities' is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the ǹation state' and ǹational sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed. Collection Of Essays Focusing On Space As The Organizing Theme Of Modernity. An Essential Issue Is The Emergence Of Trans-national Mediascapes, Ethnoscapes And Technoscapes; The International Social, Political And Cultural Institutions That Are Superseding National Ones. - Back Cover. Globalization, Modernity And The Spatialization Of Social Theory : An Introduction / Mike Featherstone And Scott Lash -- Glocalization : Time-space And Homogeneity-heterogeneity / Roland Robertson -- Globalization As Hybridization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Global System, Globalization And The Parameters Of Modernity / Jonathan Friedman -- New World Order Or Neo-world Orders : Power, Politics And Ideology In Informationalizing Glocalities / Timothy W. Luke -- Times And Spaces Of Modernity (or Who Needs Post Modernism?) / Anthony D. King -- Routes To/through Modernity / Göran Therborn -- Searching For A Centre That Holds / Zygmunt Bauman -- Security, Philosophy And Politics / Michael Dillon -- Normality--exception--counter-knowledge : On The History Of A Modern Fascination / Benno Wagner -- Time, Space, Memory, With Reference To Bachelard / Ann Game -- Soviet Individual : Genealogy Of A Dissimulating Animal / Oleg Kharkhordin -- Bio-politics And The Spectre Of Incest : Sexuality And/in The Family / Vicki Bell -- Birth Of Identity In Politics In The 1960s : Psychoanalysis And The Public/private Division / Eli Zaretsky -- Modern Error : Or, The Unbearable Enlightenment Of Being / Eugene Halton. Edited By Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash, And Roland Robertson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 'Global Modernities' is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the ǹation state' and ǹational sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.