Varieties of World Making: Beyond Globalization (Liverpool University Press - Studies in European Regional Cultures)

Globalization has been the topic of heated debate in recent years, with one side asserting it will produce a better standard of living for people around the world, and a fierce opposition arguing that it will ultimately lead to greater poverty and the destruction of unique human cultures. Varieties of World Making tackles the issue from a different angle, proposing that the contemporary global network of business, politics, and culture be viewed from the interdisciplinary perspective of “world making.” Drawn from the elite ranks of sociology, law, international relations, political philosophy, and history, the distinguished contributors cut through polarized rhetoric to examine the current global situation. Their proposed diagnoses draw upon thoughtful analyses of various political dilemmas whose ripple effects are felt around the world, such as the volatile relationship between Islam and Europe, or the legal foundations for a true international order free from the shadows of imperialism. Varieties of World Marking will be an essential resource for all those grappling with the complex consequences of globalization for the future. Title Page......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 List of contributors......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 9 Introduction: Globalization or World-Making?......Page 10 Part 1: The Coexistence of Several Worlds......Page 24 1: Republic or Empire? On the American End and the European Beginning of Politics......Page 26 2: Latin American Varieties of Modernity......Page 50 3: Multiple Modernities or Global Interconnections: Understanding the Global Post the Colonial......Page 68 4: Europe, America, China: Contemporary Wars and their Implications for World Orders......Page 83 5: Islam Online: The Internet, Religion and Politics......Page 99 Part 2: The Bonds that Make a World......Page 118 6: ‘In the Name of Politics’: Sovereignty, Democracy and the Multitude in India......Page 120 7: ‘Horizontal’ Connections and Interactions in Global Development......Page 142 8: Multiple Solidarities: Autonomy and Resistance......Page 163 9: The Making and the Unmaking of Europe in its Encounter with Islam: Negotiating French Republicanism and European Islam......Page 182 Part 3: Framing a World......Page 200 10: Democratic Justice in a Globalizing Age: Thematizing the Problem of the Frame......Page 202 11: Contracting and Founding in Times of Conflict......Page 225 12: Worlds Emerging: Approaches to the Creation and Constitution of the Common......Page 241 13: Imperial Modernism and European World-Making......Page 256 14: Global Governance and the Emergence of a ‘World Society’......Page 275 Index......Page 296 Globalization has been the topic of heated debate in recent years, with one side asserting that it will produce a better standard of living for people around the world, and a fierce opposition arguing that it will ultimately lead to greater poverty and the destruction of unique human cultures. Varieties of World Making tackles the issue from a different angle, proposing that the contemporary global network of business, politics and culture be viewed from the inter-disciplinary perspective of 'world making'. Drawn from the ranks of sociology, law, international relations, political philosophy and history, the distinguished contributors cut through polarized rhetoric to examine the current global situation. Their proposed diagnoses draw upon thoughtful analyses of various political dilemmas whose ripple effects are felt around the world, such as the volatile relationship between Islam and Europe, or the legal foundations for a true international order absent in the shadows of imperial... Publisher description "Globalization has been the topic of heated debate in recent years, with one side asserting that it will produce a better standard of living for people around the world, and a fierce opposition arguing that it will ultimately lead to greater poverty and the destruction of unique human cultures. This book tackles the issue from a different angle, proposing that the contemporary global network of business, politics, and culture be viewed from the inter-disciplinary perspective of world-making. Drawn from the ranks of sociology, law, international relations, political philosophy, and history, the contributors cut through polarized rhetoric to examine the current global situation. Their proposed diagnoses draw upon analyses of various political dilemmas whose ripple effects are felt around the world, such as the volatile relationship between Islam and Europe, or the legal foundations for a true international order absent in the shadows of imperialism."-- Provided by publisher