A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses. * Presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences * Interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to world culture * Draws from the work of recent major social theorists, comparing them to classical social theorists in an instructive manner * Grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographic research
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"Debates about globalization have become stereotyped.Universalists hope for one world united under rational law;postmodernists and their postcolonial and neo-Marxist allies dreamof a heterotopia of autonomous free agents. In this book, RonaldNiezen steps outside this sterile dualism to show how each sidesubscribes to the same Western utopian ideals, which are thenimposed on the facts. Case material from his wide experienceillustrates the failings of ideologically generated theories andoffers a more realistic approach to the actual experience ofglobalization. Elegantly written, free of cant, empiricallygrounded, theoretically sophisticated, and passionately argued,this brilliant book is required reading."
Charles Lindholm, Boston University
"This volume is a thought-provoking, intellectuallyexciting analysis of the quest for a global borderless society ...The author presents many inspired and thought-provoking challengesto the reader and one cannot but be impressed by the logic of hisarguments." Cambridge University Press
Charles Lindholm, Boston University
"This volume is a thought-provoking, intellectuallyexciting analysis of the quest for a global borderless society ...The author presents many inspired and thought-provoking challengesto the reader and one cannot but be impressed by the logic of hisarguments." Cambridge University Press