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100	1		_aC. A. Smith, Jeremy, _eauthor
245		0	_aDebating civilisations : _b Interrogating civilisational analysis in a global age
264			_bManchester University Press _c2017
300			_a1 online resource (216 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
520			_aDebating 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.
653			_aCivilisations
653			_aCornelius Castoriadis
653			_aImaginaries
653			_aIndigenous Civilisations
653			_aPower
856			_uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30734/1/%5b9781526105318%20-%20Debating%20civilisations%5d%20Debating%20civilisations.pdf||https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30734/5/9781526105318_fullhl.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30734
942			_cE-BOOK
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