Journal•ISSN: 0263-2764
Theory, Culture & Society
SAGE Publishing
About: Theory, Culture & Society is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Modernity. It has an ISSN identifier of 0263-2764. Over the lifetime, 2104 publications have been published receiving 104568 citations. The journal is also known as: Annual review & Theory, culture and society.
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TL;DR: Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or anargument about "commoditization", and very often the two arguments are closely linked as discussed by the authors. But these arguments fail to consider that at least as rapidly as forces from various metropolises are brought into new societies they tend to become indigenized in one or other way.
Abstract: Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or an argument about 'commoditization', and very often the two arguments are closely linked. What these arguments fail to consider is that at least as rapidly as forces from various metropolises are brought into new societies they tend to become indigenized in one or other way: this is true of music and housing styles as much as it is true of science and terrorism, spectacles and constitutions. The dynamics of such indigenization have just begun to be explored in a sophisticated manner
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how to conceptualize and theorize the nature of the car system that is a particularly key, if surprisingly neglected, element in "globalization".
Abstract: This article is concerned with how to conceptualize and theorize the nature of the ‘car system’ that is a particularly key, if surprisingly neglected, element in ‘globalization’. The article deploys the notion of systems as self-reproducing or autopoietic. This notion is used to understand the origins of the 20th-century car system and especially how its awesome pattern of path dependency was established and exerted a particularly powerful and self-expanding pattern of domination across the globe. The article further considers whether and how the 20th-century car system may be transcended. It elaborates a number of small changes that are now occurring in various test sites, factories, ITC sites, cities and societies. The article briefly considers whether these small changes may in their contingent ordering end this current car system. The article assesses whether such a new system could emerge well before the end of this century, whether in other words some small changes now may produce the very large effect of a new post-car system that would have great implications for urban life, for mobility and for limiting projected climate change.
1,173 citations
TL;DR: In the 21st century, the conditio humana cannot be understood nationally or locally but only globally as discussed by the authors, and this constitutes a revolution in the social sciences, which constitutes a change in the way of thinking.
Abstract: At the beginning of the 21st century the conditio humana cannot be understood nationally or locally but only globally. This constitutes a revolution in the social sciences. The `sociological imagin...
1,163 citations
TL;DR: The authors explores contemporary biopolitics in the light of Michel Foucault's oft quoted suggestion that contemporary politics calls ''life itself'' into question, and suggests that recent developm...
Abstract: This article explores contemporary biopolitics in the light of Michel Foucault's oft quoted suggestion that contemporary politics calls `life itself' into question. It suggests that recent developm...
1,144 citations