Futures of Modernity : Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice

Heinlein, Michael (EDT); Kropp, Cordula (EDT); Neumer, Judith (EDT); Poferl, Angelika (EDT); Romhild, Regina (EDT)

ISBN 10: 383762076X / ISBN 13: 9783837620764

Published by transcript publishing, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Futures of Modernity : Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice
• Publisher: transcript publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383762076X
• ISBN 13: 9783837620764
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of »reflexive« (Ulrich Beck), »multiple« (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), »entangled« (Shalini Randeria) and »global« (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and immediately clash in social action: a process of cosmopolitanization in which »the global« is localized and »the local« is globalized in radical new ways. In this book, an international selection of prominent critical thinkers address this premise and provide their interpretations of imminent challenges, concomitant social dynamics and political implications.
With contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, Edgar Grande, Maarten Hajer, Ronald Hitzler, Wolf Lepenies, Anna Tsing, Angela McRobbie, Bruno Latour, Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Natan Sznaider, Anja Weiß and Yunxiang Yan.

About the Authors

Michael Heinlein (Dr. phil.) forscht und lehrt am Institut für Soziologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Zu seinen Schwerpunkten gehören soziale Erinnerungs- und Gedächtnisforschung, Kosmopolitismus und Arbeitssoziologie.

Cordula Kropp (Prof. Dr.) ist Soziologin und leitet den Lehrstuhl für Umwelt- und Techniksoziologie sowie das Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Risiko- und Innovationsforschung (ZIRIUS) der Universität Stuttgart. Sie forscht zu sozial-ökologischen Transformationsprozessen und Projekten des Infrastrukturwandels.

Judith Neumer is a sociologist at the Institute for Social Science Research in Munich, Germany.

Angelika Poferl is Professor of Sociology at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda, Germany.

Regina Römhild is Professor of European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.