Reframing International Development

Globalism, Postmodernity, and Difference
Nelson W. Keith - West Chester University, USA
October 2012 | 328 pages | Sage US
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Attempts to theorize contemporary globalization rarely stray beyond variations on old themes of superordination. Yet there are many "new definers" of our present global realityùdepletion of strategic resources, degradation of our environment, counter-offensives against modernist patterns of thought and action û which suggest that a new framework of global relations is needed. Nelson Keith, in his striking new volume, challenges the presumptions upon which western notions of the world have rested, and sounds a call to forge a world order more sensitive to all of its representative voices. Situating Interdependence will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in issues pertaining to globalization, irrespective of their disciplines.

Contents

The Nature of the Orbit of Change

  • A Statement of Themes

PART ONE

  • Globalism and Dependence in the New World Order
  • Interdependence and its Interface with Nature's Revolt

PART TWO

  • Crisis and the Fragmented Shadows of the Enlightenment
  • Enlightenment, Rationalism and the Attack upon History
  • Newtonianism and the Heliocentric Framework
  • Broad Sketches of a Revolt and a Summary of the Argument

PART THREE

  • Culture and the Revolt against Reason
  • Postmodernism and the Repositioning of Culture
  • Culture, Rhetoric and the Reformulation of Theory

PART FOUR

  • Conclusion
  • Interdependence without Illusions

Description

Attempts to theorize contemporary globalization rarely stray beyond variations on old themes of superordination. Yet there are many "new definers" of our present global realityùdepletion of strategic resources, degradation of our environment, counter-offensives against modernist patterns of thought and action û which suggest that a new framework of global relations is needed. Nelson Keith, in his striking new volume, challenges the presumptions upon which western notions of the world have rested, and sounds a call to forge a world order more sensitive to all of its representative voices. Situating Interdependence will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in issues pertaining to globalization, irrespective of their disciplines.

Contents

The Nature of the Orbit of Change

  • A Statement of Themes

PART ONE

  • Globalism and Dependence in the New World Order
  • Interdependence and its Interface with Nature's Revolt

PART TWO

  • Crisis and the Fragmented Shadows of the Enlightenment
  • Enlightenment, Rationalism and the Attack upon History
  • Newtonianism and the Heliocentric Framework
  • Broad Sketches of a Revolt and a Summary of the Argument

PART THREE

  • Culture and the Revolt against Reason
  • Postmodernism and the Repositioning of Culture
  • Culture, Rhetoric and the Reformulation of Theory

PART FOUR

  • Conclusion
  • Interdependence without Illusions
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Reframing International Development

Globalism, Postmodernity, and Difference


October 2012 | 328 pages | Sage US

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Attempts to theorize contemporary globalization rarely stray beyond variations on old themes of superordination. Yet there are many "new definers" of our present global realityùdepletion of strategic resources, degradation of our environment, counter-offensives against modernist patterns of thought and action û which suggest that a new framework of global relations is needed. Nelson Keith, in his striking new volume, challenges the presumptions upon which western notions of the world have rested, and sounds a call to forge a world order more sensitive to all of its representative voices. Situating Interdependence will be of great interest to scholars and students interested in issues pertaining to globalization, irrespective of their disciplines.

Table Of Contents:

  • The Nature of the Orbit of Change
  • A Statement of Themes
  • PART ONE
  • Globalism and Dependence in the New World Order
  • Interdependence and its Interface with Nature's Revolt
  • PART TWO
  • Crisis and the Fragmented Shadows of the Enlightenment
  • Enlightenment, Rationalism and the Attack upon History
  • Newtonianism and the Heliocentric Framework
  • Broad Sketches of a Revolt and a Summary of the Argument
  • PART THREE
  • Culture and the Revolt against Reason
  • Postmodernism and the Repositioning of Culture
  • Culture, Rhetoric and the Reformulation of Theory
  • PART FOUR
  • Conclusion
  • Interdependence without Illusions

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