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
- ISBN10 0470776587
- ISBN13 9780470776582
- Publish Date 1 February 2008 (first published 20 October 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
- Pages 240
- Language English