A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization
literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright,
yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to
counter relativist and globalist discourses.
* Presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think
about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we
think politically about human cultural differences
* Interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to world
culture
* Draws from the work of recent major social theorists, comparing
them to classical social theorists in an instructive manner
* Grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographic
research
Table of Content
Preface ix
1 Introduction 1
2 The Tradition of Rational Utopianism 11
3 The Cultural Contradictions of Globalization 35
4 (Anti) Globalization from Below 57
5 Human Rights Pluralism and Universalism 82
6 Postmodernism’s Revolt Against Order 102
7 The New Neo-Marxism 122
8 Paradigms of Postcolonial Liberation 144
9 Conclusion 168
Notes 179
References 204
Index 213
About the author
Ronald Niezen is Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Mc Gill University and Guest Researcher at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie at Humboldt University in Berlin, and former Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity (2003), Spirit Wars (2000), and Defending the Land (1998).
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