Futures of modernity
Subtitle: challenges for cosmopolitical thought and practice
By: Michael Heinlein [and four others] (eds.).
Series: Sociology; Sociology (Bielefeld, Germany)
Publisher: Transcript
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bielefeld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783837620764
Subjects: Social aspects; Globalization; Modern Civilization; Cosmopolitanism; Social change
Other titles: Challenges for cosmopolitical thought and practice
Description: "Global risks, mobilities, and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of "reflexive" (Ulrich Beck), "multiple" (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), "entangled" (Shalini Randeria), and "global" (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and immediately clash in social action: a process of cosmopolitanization in which "the global" is localized and "the local" is globalized in radical new ways. In this book, an international selection of prominent critical thinkers provide their interpretations of imminent challenges, concomitant social dynamics and political implications."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Thinking beyond trajectorism / Arjun Appadurai; title: Cosmopolitan hope: a comment / Natan Sznaider; title: Ironic politics: politics of the future? / Wolf Lepenies; title: The triple challenge / Zygmunt Bauman; title: Ordinary catastrophe: outsourcing risk in supply-chain capitalism / Anna Tsing; title: Reflexive modernity brings us back to earth: a tribute to Ulrich Beck / Bruno Latour; title: Living the winter of discontent: reflections of a deliberative practitioner / Maarten Hajer; title: The political contradictions of second modernity / Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger; title: Global inequality and human rights: a cosmopolitan perspective / Ulrich Beck; title: The politicization of Europe: a cosmopolitan project / Edgar Grande; title: The future of global inequality / Anja Weiss; title: A good job well done: Richard Sennett and the politics of creative labour / Angela McRobbie; title: Of the individual and individualization: the striving individual in China and the theoretical implications / Yunxiang Yan; title: Individualisation, migration and gender relations / Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim; title: Inequality: from natural "facts" to injustice: on the political sensibility of the individualized human / Ronald Hitzler; title: Cosmopolitan individualization. Twelve theses on Ulrich Beck: a God of one's own. Religion's capacity for peace and potential for violence / Hans-Georg Soeffner.