TY  - BOOK
AU  - C. A. Smith, Jeremy
AB  - Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in human history. Building on Castoriadis’s theory of social imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power.
DO  - 10.7765/9781526105318
ID  - OAPEN ID: 643154
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030823029
KW  - indigenous civilisations
KW  - civilisations
KW  - power
KW  - imaginaries
KW  - cornelius castoriadis
KW  - civilisational analysis
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4f6e853d-cf3f-4075-b35f-8f566089f1c1/[9781526105318 - Debating civilisations] Debating civilisations.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/86338be7-7272-4fc3-815e-8c2f622d3a22/9781526105318_fullhl.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30734
PB  - Manchester University Press
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781526105318
TI  - Debating civilisations: Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global agenull
ER  - 
