Michael Heinlein & Cordula Kropp 
Futures of Modernity [PDF ebook] 
Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice

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 Mc Robbie, Bruno Latour, Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Natan Sznaider, Anja Weiß and Yunxiang Yan.

Despre autor

Michael Heinlein (Dr. phil.) is a sociologist at the LMU Munich, Germany.
Cordula Kropp (Prof. Dr.) is a sociologist and heads the Chair of Environmental and Technical Sociology and the Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Research (ZIRIUS) at Universität Stuttgart. She conducts research into socio-ecological transformation processes and infrastructure change projects.
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.