Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)
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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.
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Keywords
- globalisation
- universal globalization
- International Relations
- Middle East
- Global Modernity
- Religion Politics
- globalization
- post-structuralist
- postcolonial
- global processes
- political theory
- World Society
- world politics
- universalization
- political science
- Palestine
- national subjectivities
- modern subjectivities
- post-wetphalian world
- non-human subjectivities
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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World Society and Modern Subjectivity: Conceptual Reformulation
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The Politics of Modern Subjectivities in World Society
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World Society, Modern Subjectivity, and Religion
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Alternative Subjectivities: Technology and the Anthropocene
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Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modern Subjectivities in World Society
Book Subtitle: Global Structures and Local Practices
Editors: Dietrich Jung, Stephan Stetter
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90734-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90733-8Published: 07 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08086-0Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90734-5Published: 20 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2673
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 235
Topics: International Relations Theory, Globalization, Middle Eastern Politics, Politics and Religion, Political Theory