Emancipations, Modern and Postmodern - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803987773 ISBN 13: 9780803987777

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

This outstanding reappraisal of emancipation reviews the meaning of the concept and the use to which it is put in social and political theory.

The appeal of emancipation is portrayed here as a concept which can embrace old and new social movements and the ideas of liberation, participation and empowerment. The areas on which the book focuses are Marxism and postmarxism, democracy and social movements, feminism and development theory.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural anthropology. He was previously at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and the University of Amsterdam. He holds a part-time chair at Maastricht University. He currently focuses on new trends in twenty-first-century globalization and the implications of economic crisis. He has been visiting a professor in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and Thailand. He is on the editorial board of Clarity Press, the Journal of Global Studies and e-global, and is associate editor of the European Journal of Social Theory, Ethnicities, Third Text and the Journal of Social Affairs.

Review:

`The diversity of the contributors′ perspectives invites the reader to a stimulating and rewarding experience: the expert will enjoy the attractive breadth of coverage and the freedom from parochial constraints, and the general reader with an interest in current affairs will get the flavour of the important issues from authoritative sources who command a clear and concise style of writing′ - Discourse and Society

`This is an excellent collection expertly put together by the editor. The articles cover a wide range of concerns and show a welcome geographical breadth. The volume will be a valuable addition to reading-lists for courses in Political Sociology′ - Sociology

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0803987773
• ISBN 13: 9780803987777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Nederveen Pieterse Jan