{"product_id":"global-subjects-a-political-critique-of-globalization-paperback-softback-9780745636689","title":"Global Subjects; A Political Critique of Globalization (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745636689","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGlobal Subjects\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Political Critique of Globalization\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-François Bayart (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745636689, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 December 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.3 x 2.7 cm, 0.562 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“This brilliant book by one of France’s most eminent social theorists is the first major work on globalization and the state to bring history, culture and the analysis of power into a single and vivid method. Filled with delicious insights into subjectivity, the senses, crime, fashion and marketing, Bayart offers a trenchant and original argument about the dynamics of a world which combines emergence and emergency. This is historical sociology at its literate best, a must-read for scholars in any field who seek to understand globalization without any preconceptions.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- Arjun Appardurai, \u003ci\u003eThe New School, New York City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Bayart’s special way of mixing vivid examples from all over the globe with daring theoretical interpretations breathes new life into the concepts of globalization, governmentality and subjectivation. Irony and perspicacity combine beautifully in this book. With great panache he shows that our everyday practices are part and parcel of an emerging global governmentality. We may feel that globalization is something that happens to us but in many respects we are deeply involved in its making. The message is clear: globalization is us.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- Peter Geschiere, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Amsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTaking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as an impersonal force that is threatening to destroy identities and undermine nation-states. In this major new book, Jean-Franois Bayart offers a radically new account of globalization which challenges the way it is interpreted both by neo-liberals and by the anti-globalization movement.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eBayart argues that globalization is something that we ourselves have created, and the nation-state is actually a product, and not of a victim, of this process. Far from being synonymous with alienation and social disintegration, globalization establishes transnational solidarities and networks which overlap with nation-states without necessarily undermining them. Globalization has also refashioned sexual identities, transforming, through the representation of female and male bodies in the media, in advertising and in the Internet, the way individuals in different parts of the world have learnt to recognize themselves as sexual subjects. It has created new cultures of consumption which stimulate new desires, new techniques and technologies of the body and new forms of tension and conflict.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on Foucaults notions of governmentality and subjectivation, Bayart develops a rich and illuminating account of how the social relations constitutive of globalization produce new forms of subjectivity, new lifestyles and new moral subjects, from the colonisers and colonised subjects of nineteenth-century India and Africa to the spread of new kinds of transnational and ethnicized subjectivities and lifestyles today.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanning two centuries and drawing on his deep knowledge of Africa and the Middle East, Bayart shows that, if globalization is our handiwork, its development and thus our history will be decided on the contested terrains where new ways of life, new modes of consumption and new types of struggle are being invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e Yours globally.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter I Two centuries of globalisation: the changing scale of State and capitalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe limits of globalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalisation: a concept and an event.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe foundational 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalisation: two or three things that we know about it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter II The State, a product of globalisation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dead man’s reprieve.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe privatisation of States as a principle of hybridization and straddling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe transnational production of national memories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrontiers, smuggling and State formation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA very national ‘international civil society’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransnational crime in the service of the State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe transnational ferment: the latest proofs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalisation, the motor of State formation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter III The social foundations of globalisation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe transnational historical fields.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe global web of social relations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalisation as networking?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter IV Globalisation and political subjectivation: the imperial moment (1830-1960).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA point of method.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColonisation as experience of subjectivation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExtraversion and coercion in imperial subjectivation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter V Globalisation and political subjectivation: the neo-liberal period (1980-2004).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal social institutions and political subjectivation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe diffuse social practices of global subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘human types’ of globalisation: main roles and American stars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘human types’ of globalisation from below: the importance of the bit players.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalisation: nation-state and individuation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter VI The global techniques of the body.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMerchandise and subjectivation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe globalisation and appropriation of merchandise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMerchandise and the reinvention of difference.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMerchandise and political subjectivation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalisation in movement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe globalisation of gestures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe senses of globalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe world in movement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe global political techniques of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion When waiting is an urgent matter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Godot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalisation as a liminal condition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlenum and void in global governmentality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to chapter 1.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to chapter 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to chapter 3.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to chapter 4.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to chapter 5.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to chapter 6.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes to conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; 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