Thomas Reifer

Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite prognostications of the "end of history," the 21st century has posed new challenges and a host of global crises. This book takes up the current global economic crisis in relation to new and changing dynamics of territory, authority, and rights in today's global system. The authors explore long simmering conflicts in comparative perspective, including settler colonialism in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine. They discuss indigenous struggles against environmental land grabs and related destruction of indigenous lands by the US nuclear weapons complex. The book uniquely considers the sacred in the context of the global system, including struggles of Latina/o farm workers in the U.S. for social justice and for change in the Catholic Church. Other chapters examine questions of civilizations and identity in the contemporary global system, as well as the role of world-regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317259046
• Artikelnr.: 44017994

Autorenporträt

Reifer, Thomas

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 'Crisis
What Crisis?'?
Immanuel Wallerstein; Chapter 2 Long-Term World-Systemic Crises
W. L. Goldfrank; Chapter 3 Belated Decolonization
Gershon Shafir; Chapter 4 Democratizing Global Governance
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Bruce Lerro; Chapter 5 Violence
the Sacred
and the Global System
Michelle M. Jacob; Chapter 6 Farm Labor and the Catholic Church in California
Alberto López Pulido; Chapter 7 Treadmills
Rifts
and Environmental Degradation
Andrew K. Jorgenson
Brett Clark; Chapter 8 Islam
Immigration
LaïcitÃ(c)
and Leitkultur
Bahar Davary; Chapter 9 A Critical View of Wallerstein's Utopistics from Dussel's Transmodernity
Ramon Grosfoguel; Chapter 10 The Quasi-Europes
Manuela BoatcĿ; Chapter 11 Neither Global nor National
Saskia Sassen; Chapter 12 The Global Street Comes to Wall Street
Saskia Sassen;