Global Anarchy in the Third Millennium? : Race, Place and Power at the End of the Modern Age

by Wayne Smith, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780312229085
• ISBN10: 0312229089
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In a vision of apocalyptic pessimism, this critical examination explores the multitude of economic, environmental, and social problems facing human civilization. A global situation of "planetary overload" has made our world alien, hostile, and increasingly out of control, distant from human culture and communities, and approaching a point of critical instability, after which a breakdown of civilization occurs.

Author Biography

Joseph Wayne Smith is Senior Research Fellow in Geography at the University of Adelaide.

Graham Lyons is an Adelaide businessman, writer, agriculturist, and environmentalist.

Evonne Moore is an Adelaide-based writer and environmentalist.

Table of Contents

Ragnarok! Race, Place and Global Anarchy at the End of the Modern Age	1	(23)
The Failure of the Enlightenment Project: The Balkanization of Everything	24	(27)
Shipwrecked by the Laughter of the Gods: The Epistemological Limits of Universalism	51	(30)
Coming Together and Falling Apart: The Failure of the One-World Dream	81	(17)
Endtimes: Breakdown and Breakup	98	(23)
Notes	121	(23)
Bibliography	144	(43)
Index	187