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Informationen zum Autor Arjun Appadurai is the John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences at The New School, where he is also Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives. His books include Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization and the collection Globalization, also published by Duke University Press. He is a cofounder of the journal Public Culture, founder of the nonprofit PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action, and Research) in Mumbai, cofounder and codirector of ING (Interdisciplinary Network on Globalization), and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as a consultant or advisor to a wide range of public and private organizations, including the Ford, Rockefeller, and MacArthur foundations; UNESCO; the World Bank; and the National Science Foundation. Klappentext A leading theorist of globalization provides a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global violence Zusammenfassung The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets! the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule! and the active expansion of human rights. This book provides a framework for understanding sources of global violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix 1. From Ethnocide to Ideocide 1 2. The Civilization of Clashes 15 3. Globalization and Violence 35 4. Fear of Small Numbers 49 5. Our Terrorists, Ourselves 87 6. Grassroots Globalization in the Era of Ideocide 115 Bibliography 139 Index 143
