Globalization and Identity Dialectics of Flow and Closure

by Meyer, Birgit; Geschiere, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780631212386
• ISBN10: 0631212388
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

"Globalization" and "Identity" are an explosive combination, demonstrated by recent outbursts of communalist violence in many parts of the world. Their varying articulations highlight the paradox that accelerating global flows of goods, persons and images go together with determined efforts towards closure, emphasis on cultural difference and fixing of identities. This collection explores this paradox of 'flow' and 'closure' through a series of detailed case studies in comparative perspective.

Author Biography

Birgit Meyer is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University. Peter Geschiere is an editor of Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure Introduction	1	(16)
Birgit Meyer
Peter Geschiere
Nationalism and Transnationalism
Circassian Encounters: The Self as Other and the Production of the Homeland in the North Caucasus	17	(30)
Seteney Shami
Transnationalism in the Era of Nation-States: China, 1900-1945	47	(24)
Prasenjit Duara
The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project	71	(26)
Mamadou Diouf
Enforcing the Human Rights of Citizens and Non-Citizens in the Era of Maastricht: Some Reflections on the Importance of States	97	(28)
Jacqueline Bhabha
Commodities and Fantasies
Small Product, Big Issues: Value Contestations and Cultural Identities in Cross-Border Commodity Networks	125	(26)
Norman Long
Magdalena Villarreal
Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana	151	(26)
Birgit Meyer
Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars: Identity, Expenditure and Sharing in Southwestern Zaire (1984-1997)	177	(34)
Filip De Boeck
Globalization and the Power of Indeterminate Meaning: Witchcraft and Spirit Cults in Africa and East Asia	211	(28)
Peter Geschiere
Theoretical Reflections
Time and the Global: Against the Homogeneous, Empty Communities in Contemporary Social Theory	239	(34)
John D. Kelly
Globalization and Virtuality: Analytical Problems Posed by the Contemporary Transformation of African Societies	273	(32)
Wim van Binsbergen
Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization	305	(20)
Arjun Appadurai
Epilogue: On Some Reports from a Free Space	325	(6)
Ulf Hannerz
Notes on Contributors	331	(4)
Index	335