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"In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on 'culture' in contemporary theories of globalization are analyzed around the disparate fields of architecture, museum discourse, satellite television, dub poetry, carnival and sub-national theatre. T…
In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalisation and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and…
This book enters new territory by moving toward a new conceptual framework for comparative and interdisciplinary research on transcultural state formation. Once more, statehood and governance are highly discussed topics, whereby modern state building is often considered to be a …
Annotation This text presents a new conceptual framework for comparative and entangled research on transcultural state formation. It examines concepts of statehood to provide conceptual tools to analyze the transcultural appropriation of governmental technologies.
It has become widely accepted that the discipline of International Relations (IR) is ironically not international at all. IR scholars are part of a global discipline with a single, shared object of study - the world, and yet theorizing gravitates around a number of concepts that…