A World Beyond Difference

<i>A World Beyond Difference</i> unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist and globalist discourses. <br /> <ul class=”noindent”> <li>Presents a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences<br /> </li> <li>Interprets, criticizes, and frames responses to world culture<br /> </li> <li>Draws from the work of recent major social theorists, comparing them to classical social theorists in an instructive manner<br /> </li> <li>Grounds critique of theory in years of ethnographic research</li> </ul>