Civilizational Identity
Subtitle: The Production and Reproduction of "Civilizations" in International Relations (Culture and Religion in International Relations)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403975447
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); International Relations (General); Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; International Relations - General; Public Policy - Cultural Policy; Political Science / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; Modern - 20th Century; 1989-; Civilization; International relations; Philosophy; World politics
Description: As a way of improvising on the study of civilizations in world politics, the volume focuses on those social and political practices through which notions of civilizational identity are reproduced in a variety of contexts ranging from the global credit regime to theological debates about modernity to the 'war on terrorism'. The contributors to the volume explore the ways in which practices of civilizational identity give rise to the effect of a solid object called a 'civilization, ' even though this object is itself nothing more than an ensemble of social practices.--