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Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds
Social Transformations

Edited by:

Ulrike Schuerkens - Université Rennes 2, France

Series:
SAGE Studies in International Sociology

Other Titles in:
Globalization

How are global forces impacting on local lifestyles? Where does the personal stand in relation to globalization? Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds explores these questions using a mixture of sociological and anthropological analysis and case study methods. Demonstrating the tensions between retaining cultural integrity in the face of the levelling processes associated with modernity, this book: locates the problems of globalization and localization in the appropriate anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the relationship between culture and identity; and explores the varieties of modernity.

Willfried Spohn

Preface

Ulrike Schuerkens

Social Transformations Between Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds

Introduction

Ulrike Schuerkens

The Sociological and Anthropological Study of Globalization and Localization

PART ONE: SYSTEMATIC COMPARISONS ACROSS EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES

Lauren Langman

Culture, Identity, and Hegemony

The Body in a Global Age

Helmuth Berking

`Ethnicity is Everywhere'

On Globalization and the Transformation of Cultural Identity

Willfried Spohn

Multiple Modernity, Nationalism and Religion - A Global Perspective

Ulrike Schuerkens

Structural Change in Western Africa as a Legacy of European Colonialism

The Labour System in Ghana and the Ivory Coast

Shalini Randeria

Glocalization of Law

Environmental Justice, World Bank, NGOs and the Cunning State in India

Christine M[um]uller

Knowledge between Globalization and Localization

The Dynamics of Female Spaces in Ghana

PART TWO: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES

Eric Popkin

Transnational Migration and Development in Postwar Peripheral States

An Examination of Guatemalan and Salvadoran State Linkages with their Migrant Populations in Los Angeles

Nina Bandelj

Particularizing the Global

Reception of Foreign Direct Investment in Slovenia

Marina Padr[ti}ao Temudo and Ulrich Schiefer

Disintegration and Resilience of Agrarian Societies in Africa - the Importance of Social and Genetic Resources

A Case Study on the Reception of Urban War Refugees in the South of Guinea-Bissau

Johanna Schmidt

Paradise Lost? Social Change and Fa'afafine in Samoa

George Morgan

Autochthonous Australian Syncretism

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