Beyond global modernity, global consciousness and global governmentality: The symmetrical anthropology of globalization
TL;DR: The symmetrical anthropology of globalization is proposed in this paper, where the authors combine the research strategies developed by Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann to problematize how we interpret the world when discussing globalization.
Abstract: The article combines the research strategies developed by Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann to problematize how we interpret the world when discussing globalization. Two previous approaches – global modernity and global consciousness – interpret the world as completely objective (nature transcends culture). Another approach – global governmentality – interprets the world as completely subjective (culture transcends nature). Against these approaches, this article proposes a new one: the symmetrical anthropology (or sociology) of globalization. Inspired by Latour’s variable ontologies, it considers multiple descriptions of the world and multiple descriptions of society simultaneously. It considers globalization as one description of society and searches for the description of the world corresponding to it. It distinguishes three descriptions of the world: (1) the world as natural order; (2) the world as external object; and (3) the world as levels of organization. It is argued that the description of the worl...
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The cognition in the wild is universally compatible with any devices to read and is available in the digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly.
Abstract: Thank you very much for reading cognition in the wild. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their favorite books like this cognition in the wild, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they cope with some harmful virus inside their laptop. cognition in the wild is available in our digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. Our book servers spans in multiple countries, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Merely said, the cognition in the wild is universally compatible with any devices to read.
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TL;DR: The emergence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with its attendant coronavirus disease in late 2019 (COVID-19) have brought untold social and economic hardships on the global society but with severe impacts on the sub-Saharan African households as mentioned in this paper .
Abstract: The emergence and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with its attendant coronavirus disease in late 2019 (COVID-19) have brought untold social and economic hardships on the global society but with severe impacts on the sub-Saharan African households. The social and economic impacts were severe given that lifestyle in Africa is largely characterised by poor infrastructure development and social amenities. This situation increased food insecurity arising from complete loss or temporary halt of means of livelihood of the continent's households. Alongside this is loss of social security with resultant psychological stress and anxieties. This notwithstanding, developed resilience and social protection support have strengthened the African households to cope and possibly recover from the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that if the twentieth century was the age of the world picture taken as a photograph of the Whole Earth from outer space, today's observations of the planet are produced by means of computer simulation.
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TL;DR: For tourism scholars, this has been a question that has enlivened, haunted, and otherwise driven our desire to understand human mobility and the travel and tourism phenomenon as mentioned in this paper.
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TL;DR: The authors explored how the lived experience of everyday Chinese workers influenced their struggle to improve their working conditions, and argued that because workers' consciousness of everyday workers remains at an embryonic level, their ability to campaign and change working conditions remains constrained.
Abstract: This paper presents findings from a study that has explored how the lived experience of everyday Chinese workers influenced their struggle to improve their working conditions. We argue that because the consciousness of everyday Chinese workers remains at an embryonic level, their ability to campaign and change their working conditions remains constrained. We inform this argument by engaging with Foucault’s power–knowledge framework (1980). The study draws on original interviews with n = 74 Chinese workers gathered across two phases of data collection conducted between 2011 and 2014.
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01 Jan 2005TL;DR: In Evolution in Four Dimensions, Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb argue that there is more to heredity than genes and offers a richer, more complex view of evolution than the gene-based, one-dimensional view held by many today.
Abstract: Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according to which adaptation occurs only through natural selection of chance DNA variations. In Evolution in Four Dimensions, Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb argue that there is more to heredity than genes. They trace four "dimensions" in evolution -- four inheritance systems that play a role in evolution: genetic, epigenetic (or non-DNA cellular transmission of traits), behavioral, and symbolic (transmission through language and other forms of symbolic communication). These systems, they argue, can all provide variations on which natural selection can act. Evolution in Four Dimensions offers a richer, more complex view of evolution than the gene-based, one-dimensional view held by many today. The new synthesis advanced by Jablonka and Lamb makes clear that induced and acquired changes also play a role in evolution. After discussing each of the four inheritance systems in detail, Jablonka and Lamb "put Humpty Dumpty together again" by showing how all of these systems interact. They consider how each may have originated and guided evolutionary history and they discuss the social and philosophical implications of the four-dimensional view of evolution. Each chapter ends with a dialogue in which the authors engage the contrarieties of the fictional (and skeptical) "I.M.," or Ifcha Mistabra -- Aramaic for "the opposite conjecture" -- refining their arguments against I.M.'s vigorous counterarguments. The lucid and accessible text is accompanied by artist-physician Anna Zeligowski's lively drawings, which humorously and effectively illustrate the authors' points.
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...Matter, life, consciousness and communication constitute many levels of organization or emergence (see also Jablonka and Lamb, 2014)....
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The cognition in the wild is universally compatible with any devices to read and is available in the digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly.
Abstract: Thank you very much for reading cognition in the wild. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their favorite books like this cognition in the wild, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they cope with some harmful virus inside their laptop. cognition in the wild is available in our digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. Our book servers spans in multiple countries, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Merely said, the cognition in the wild is universally compatible with any devices to read.
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04 Aug 2003
TL;DR: The second and third editions of the Second and Third editions of this book as discussed by the authors have been published in the last few years and are available online and in bookstores now, respectively.
Abstract: Preface to the Second and Third Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Globalization: Consensus and Controversies Consensus Controversies Twenty-First-Century Globalization 2. Globalization and Human Integration: We Are All Migrants Globalization as a Deep Historical Process Utopian Visions: Human Unity as a Theme Uneven Globalization We Are All Migrants: Migration and Human Integration 3. Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms Clash of Civilizations McDonaldization Hybridization: Rhizomes of Culture Futures 4. Globalization as Hybridization Globalizations Plural Globalization and Modernity Structural Hybridization Global Melange Theorizing Hybridity Politics of Hybridity Post-hybridity? Forward Moves 5. Hybridity, So What? The Anti-hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition Varieties of Hybridity The Anti-hybridity Backlash Hybridity and the longue duree Boundary Fetishism and Life and Death Different Cultural Takes on Hybridity Patterns of Hybridity So What? 6. Globalization Is Braided: East-West Osmosis East -West Islam-West Easternization, Westernization, and Back Again 7. Hybrid China Silk Roads New Silk Roads Hybridity with Chinese Characteristics Globalized, Globalizing 8. Global Melange Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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...The presumption is not that society has become global at some point in history for contingent reasons, but that the features of global life (international networks, transnational flows, local-global interfaces, cultural contacts, and so on) turn out to be the features of all social life everywhere in space and time (Pieterse, 2009)....
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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: Deleuze's world is the mathematics of the virtual - manifolds, vector fields and transformation groups the actualization of virtual in space the actualisation of the Virtual in time virtuality and the laws of physics as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Deleuze's world the mathematics of the virtual - manifolds, vector fields and transformation groups the actualization of the virtual in space the actualization of the virtual in time virtuality and the laws of physics. Appendix: Deleuze's words.
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02 Aug 2004
TL;DR: Larner and Walters as discussed by the authors argued that the security of global governmentality is a function of the security and rationality of the European Union's Open Method of Coordination (OMC).
Abstract: Introduction: Global Governmentality - Wendy Larner and William Walters Part I - Rethinking Key Concepts1. Liberalism - What's in a Name? Barry Hindess2. Nomos and the Politics of World Order - Mitchell Dean3. Global Networks, International Networks, Actor Networks - Gavin Kendall4. The Security of Governance - Michael DillonPart II - Problems, Practices, Assemblages, Regimes5. Governing through the Social: Representations of Poverty and Global Governmentality - Cristina Rojas6. The International Government of Refugees - Robyn Lui7. The Clash of Governmentalities: Displacement and Return in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Gearoid A" Tuathail and Carl Dahlman8. The Political Rationality of European Integration - William Walters9. Forms of Governance, Governmentality and the EU's Open Method of Coordination - Roger Dale10. Ethical Capitalism - Andrew Barry11. Global Benchmarking: Particpating 'at a distance' in the Globalizing Economy - Wendy Larner and Richard Le Heron12. Insecurity and the Dream of Targeted Governance - Mariana Valverde and Michael Mopas
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