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Modern Subjectivities in World Society

Global Structures and Local Practices

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Explores globalization through theoretical and empirical lenses
  • Contributes to a better understanding of the role of individuals in constituting both globalization and modernity
  • Combines theoretical rigor based on social and critical theories of global modernity with concrete empirical examples from the fields of Middle East studies, religious studies and the study of non-human subjectivities

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Why Study Modern Subjectivities in World Society? An Introduction

    • Dietrich Jung, Stephan Stetter
    Pages 1-20
  3. World Society and Modern Subjectivity: Conceptual Reformulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
  4. The Politics of Modern Subjectivities in World Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. Globalization and Nationalist Subjectivities

      • Siniša Malešević
      Pages 65-83
  5. Alternative Subjectivities: Technology and the Anthropocene

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 229-235

About this book

This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation. It addresses a theoretical void in global studies by attending to the co-constituted process through which modern subjectivities and global processes emerge and interact. The editors outline a key problem in global studies, which is a lack of engagement between the local/particular/individual and the ‘universalising’ processes in which they are situated. The volume deals with this concern with contributions from historical sociologists, poststructuralist and postcolonial scholars and by focusing in the Middle East, religion in global modernity and non-human subjectivities.

Reviews

“Subjectivities were constitutive of the international, and came to underpin globalisation. The book’s mixing of social theory with empirics in particular from Middle Eastern and religious studies succeeds in opening this much understudied topic to a potentially wide readership.” (Iver Neumann, author of Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality)

“Insisting on the concept of world society as its starting point, this book explores the multifaceted nature of global-local interplays and the formation of modern actors, taking into account both the historicity of these relations and the conflictual and alternative forms they take. It makes a valuable contribution to the developing literature that establishes a ‘missing link’ between international relations, global studies and international political sociology.” (Didem Buhari-Gulmez, Associate Professor, lzmir University of Economics, Turkey)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Dietrich Jung

  • Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, Bundeswehr University Munich, Munich, Germany

    Stephan Stetter

About the editors

Dietrich Jung is Professor and Head of the Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Stephan Stetter is Professor of World Politics and Conflict Studies at the Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany/EU and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

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