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Global Era (global + era)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	80%

Selected Abstracts

Perpetual Imagining: Nationhood in a Global Era

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2003
Sheila L. Croucher
At the turn of the millennium, nations and nationalism persist in spite of scholarship that has both anticipated and proclaimed their demise. This article assesses the empirical reality and the state of scholarly analysis on nationhood in the context of globalization beginning with an overview and update of the definitional dilemma that surrounds the concept of the nation. Subsequent sections review competing conceptualizations of nation as either premodern, modern, or postmodern and synthesize existing theoretical insights, leading to the conclusion that even though nations are, indeed, constructed, nothing suggests that their construction was, is, or will be restricted to the modern era. [source]

Gender, Nations and States in a Global Era

NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, Issue 4 2000
Sylvia Walby
Nations and national projects are gendered in different ways. Feminist theory has raised important questions about the conceptualisation of ,difference'. This article develops the conceptualisation of the different ways in which nations and national projects are gendered, arguing for a mid-level conceptualisation of gender relations. It argues against, on the one hand, the excessive fragmentation of gender, and on the other, too simple dichotomies of mordless unequal gender relations. This draws on a theorisation of gender relations which connects the different dimensions into specific kinds of gender regimes, either public or domestic gender regimes. This enables us to conceptualise different national projects as having a more or less public or domestic gender project. The conflicts between different national projects and with other polities, such as states, are then conflicts between differently gendered projects. The usefulness of this mid-level conceptualisation is demonstrated through examples of the competing relations between the UK, Ireland, the EU and the Catholic Church in a global era. [source]

Constitutional Privilege and Constituting Pluralism: Religious Freedom in National, Global, and Legal Context

JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 3 2003
Peter Beyer
Lori Beaman argues that religious freedom in Canada and the United States is well established in theory (or myth) but limited in practice, privileging Protestantism in particular and varieties of Christianity in general. Focusing on the treatment of other religions in the courts of the two countries, she defends the hypothesis that these legal systems tend to reinforce the hegemony of Christianity, using this as an implicit model of what constitutes a religion, and thereby maintaining the marginalization and restricting the freedom of other religions. The present article sets Beaman's arguments in a wider global context, exploring the extent to which Christianity does and does not serve as a global standard for religion; and addressing the question of why issues of religious freedom so frequently end up being the subject of legal judgment and political decision. The main conclusions drawn from this global contextualization are that maintenance of some kind of religious hegemony is the rule all across global society, not just in Canada and the United States, and that unfettered freedom of religion or genuine religious pluralization is correspondingly rare, if it exists anywhere. Moreover, it is argued that such limitations, frequently expressed in legal judgments and political decisions, are more or less to be expected because they flow from the peculiar way that religion has been constructed in the modern and global era as both a privileged and privatized, as both an encompassing and marginalized social domain. The article thereby simultaneously reinforces and takes issue with Beaman's position: the modern and global reconstruction of religion invites its infinite pluralization at the same time as it encourages its politicization and practical restriction. Religions act as important resources both for claims to inclusion and for strategies of relative exclusion. [source]

Toward a Psychosocial Theory of Military and Economic Violence in the Era of Globalization

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Issue 1 2006
Marc Pilisuk
A theory of the roots of violent conflict in the global era focuses upon a pattern of intervention by the United States, its allies, and proxy forces. It emphasizes a dominant set of beliefs and powerful networks in a position to apply them. The networks protect and extend their concentrations of wealth using violence or the threat of violence to produce compliant governments, to identify enemies, to mobilize consent, and to minimize the perceived costs of such activity. U.S. government agencies and large global corporations are central to this effort. Illustrations are provided by descriptions of military actions in Venezuela, East Timor, and Iraq. Implications for research include the value of using network analysis to identify centers of combined corporate and governmental power and the value of combining the study of belief systems with studies identifying such centers of power. [source]