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oapen-20.500.12657-307342024-03-25T09:51:40Z Debating civilisations: Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age C. A. Smith, Jeremy indigenous civilisations civilisations power imaginaries cornelius castoriadis civilisational analysis thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in human history. Building on Castoriadis’s theory of social imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power. 2018-02-01 23:55 2019-12-03 08:32:13 2020-04-01T13:08:57Z 2020-04-01T13:08:57Z 2017 book 643154 OCN: 1030823029 9781526105318 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30734 eng application/pdf application/pdf n/a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International [9781526105318 - Debating civilisations] Debating civilisations.pdf 9781526105318_fullhl.pdf Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526105318 10.7765/9781526105318 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd 9781526105318 216 open access
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Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in human history. Building on Castoriadis’s theory of social imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power.
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