Ulf Hannerz's Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Global PDF

By Ulf Hannerz

ISBN-10: 3319312618

ISBN-13: 9783319312613

ISBN-10: 3319706276

ISBN-13: 9783319706276

This quantity offers a accomplished research of world destiny eventualities and their influence on a transforming into, shared tradition. Ever because the finish of the chilly struggle, a various diversity of destiny suggestions has emerged in a number of components of academia—and even in renowned journalism. a few those key concepts—‘the finish of history,’ ‘the conflict of civilizations,’ ‘the coming anarchy,’ ‘the international is flat,’ ‘soft power,’ ‘the post-American century’—suggest what might develop into attribute of this new, interconnected international. Ulf Hannerz scrutinizes those rules, considers their legacy, and indicates extra discussion among authors of the ‘American situation’ and commentators in different places.  

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