Table of Contents

Globalization, Modernity and the Spatialization of Social Theory - Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash
An Introduction
Glocalization - Roland Robertson
Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity
Globalization as Hybridization - Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Global System, Globalization and the Parameters of Modernity - Jonathan Friedman
New World Order or Neo-World Orders - Timothy W Luke
Power, Politics and Ideology in Informationalizing Glocalities
The Times and Spaces of Modernity (or Who Needs Postmodernism?) - Anthony D King
Routes to/through Modernity - G[um]oran Therborn
Searching for a Centre that Holds - Zygmunt Bauman
Security, Philosophy and Politics - Michael Dillon
Normality - Exception - Counter-knowledge - Benno Wagner
On the History of a Modern Fascination
Time, Space, Memory with Reference to Bachelard - Ann Game
The Soviet Individual - Oleg Kharkhordin
Genealogy of a Dissimulating Animal
Bio-politics and the Spectre of Incest - Vikki Bell
Sexuality and/in the Family
The Birth of Identity Politics in the 1960s - Eli Zaretsky
Psychoanalysis and the Public/Private Division
The Modern Error - Eugene Halton
Or, the Unbearable Enlightenment of Being

About the Author

Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society. Roland Robertson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His books include International Systems and the Modernization of Societies (with J P Nettl, 1968) The Sociological Interpretation of Religion (1970) Meaning and Change: Explorations in the Cultural Sociology of Modern Societies (1978), Religion and Global Order (co-edited with William R Garrett, 1991) and Talcott Parsons: Theorist of Modernity (co-edited with Bryan S Turner

Reviews

`A timely contribution to current debates around globalization theory and an excellent introduction to this complex and contradictory field of study. Globalization theory has not simply supplanted postmodernism, but has rather refocused many of the issues raised by postmodernism towards a more serious reappraisal of the whole question of modernity itself′ - Habitat International