Distant Proximities,9780691095240

Distant Proximities

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ISBN13: 9780691095240
ISBN10: 0691095248
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-03-10
Publisher(s): Princeton Univ Pr
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Summary

In "Distant Proximities" one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post-Cold War, post-September 11th world.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Part One Theoretical Perspectives: Recasting Global Life
1(202)
An Emergent Epoch
3(15)
People, Collectivities, and Change
18(32)
Sources and Consequences of Fragmegration
50(29)
Local Worlds
79(39)
Global Worlds
118(35)
Private Worlds
153(17)
Movement among Twelve Worlds
170(14)
Emergent Spaces, New Places, and Old Faces: Immigrants and the Proliferation of Identities
184(19)
Part Two Conceptual Equipment: Retooling the Storehouse
203(112)
Normative and Complexity Approaches
205(27)
The Skill Revolution
232(24)
The Information Revolution: Both Powerful and Neutral
256(17)
Structures of Authority: In Crisis or in Place?
273(20)
Spheres of Authority
293(22)
Part Three Issues, Processes, and Structures as Distant Proximities
315(88)
Progress toward Human Rights
317(19)
Retreat from Human Rights: The Challenge of Systemic Hatred
336(12)
Corruption as a Global Issue
348(21)
Prosperity and Poverty
369(21)
Governance in Fragmegrative Space
390(13)
Part Four Postscript
403(18)
A Transformed Observer in a Transforming World: Confessions of a Pre-Postmodernist
405(16)
Author Index 421(6)
Subject Index 427

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