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Globalization, modernity and social change: hotspots of transition
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Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
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Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Theorizing 'Undefined Society'
2. Urban Worlds and Global Cities
Urban Footprints: The Ecological Embeddedness of the City
Urban Landscapes of Change: Between Local Diversity and Global Interconnectedness
The Global City As Post-metropolis
Recomplexifying the Global City
Terminological Confusions in the Global City Discourse
Summary and Conclusion
3. Borders, Border Regions and Post-socialist Transformations: New Geographies of Power and Identity
Borders and Border Regions: New Landscapes of Power and Identity
'Interdependent Borderlands' or 'Wild Zone'? The German-Polish Border Region
Between 'Europhoria' and 'Europhobia': The Festivalization of Borderland Politics
The Legacy of (Post-) Socialism or the Victory Crisis of Western Modernity?
Strategies of Transclusion: Hypermobility and Symbolisms of Belonging
Summary and Conclusion
4. The Workplace in Transition: Labour, Time and Space
Work and Employment in the Networked Society
Beyond Taylorism? Skill, Control and the Informational Labour Process
Identity, Subjectivity and Control in the Informational Workplace
Gendered Informationalism? Occupational Segregation and Emotional Labour in Call Centres
India Calling! Cyber-coolies in Cyber-Space?
Globalization and Organized Labour: The Ambiguities of Identity in the Informational Workplace
Summary and Conclusion
5. Consumption: Money and Identity in the Postmodern World
Money, Commodification and Identity: Fragments in a Fragmented World?
Cathedrals of Consumption: The Origins of Hyperconsumption
Rationalization and Its Discontents: From the Iron Cage to the Castle of Romantic Dreams?
Postmodern Space and Consumption: Ambiguity, Ontological Insecurity and the Shopping Mall
Aporetic Consumption? Postmodernism, Ambiguity and Social Change
Summary and Conclusion
6. Politics Beyond the State: New Individualities and Solidarities
Neo-Liberal Globalism and the Crisis of Social Democracy
Globalization and Individualism: Beyond Identity Politics?
Anti-Globalism: Networks of Resistance and the Globalization of Politics
Social Movement Unionism: The Limits and Possibilities of a Postmodern Labour Movement
Global Civil Society: The Politics of Cosmocracy?
Summary and Conclusion
7. Nature, Environment, Milieu: Life in Risk Society
Archimedean Points: Globe and Body
The Advance of the 'Risk Society': Exploring the Genesis and Consequences of Avian Flu
Risk Society as 'Second' or 'Reflexive' Modernity
Symbolic Reconciliation with 'Nature': Milieu and Body
Summary and Conclusion
8. Reconstructing the Social
Whither Community?
Sociology for a Changing World
Bibliography
Index
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9780333971581
9780333971574
9780333971574
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