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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. ** Review “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 socie

Who reads Modern Subjectivities in World Society : Global Structures and Local Practices?

Author

Dietrich Jung; Stephan Stetter; Springer International Publishing

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319907345

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Sociology