Globalization and Identity Dialectics of Flow

"Globalization" and "Identity" are an explosive combination, demonstrated by recent outbursts of communalist violence in many parts of the world. Their varying articulations highlight the paradox that accelerating global flows of goods, persons and images go together with determined efforts towards closure, emphasis on cultural difference and fixing of identities. This collection explores this paradox of 'flow' and 'closure' through a series of detailed case studies in comparative perspective.

Birgit Meyer is a German professor of religious studies at Utrecht University. Peter Geschiere is an editor of Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure published by Wiley.

Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure Introduction

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(16)

Birgit Meyer

Peter Geschiere

Nationalism and Transnationalism

Circassian Encounters: The Self as Other and the Production of the Homeland in the North Caucasus

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(30)

Seteney Shami

Transnationalism in the Era of Nation-States: China, 1900-1945

47

(24)

Prasenjit Duara

The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project

71

(26)

Mamadou Diouf

Enforcing the Human Rights of Citizens and Non-Citizens in the Era of Maastricht: Some Reflections on the Importance of States

97

(28)

Jacqueline Bhabha

Commodities and Fantasies

Small Product, Big Issues: Value Contestations and Cultural Identities in Cross-Border Commodity Networks

125

(26)

Norman Long

Magdalena Villarreal

Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana

151

(26)

Birgit Meyer

Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars: Identity, Expenditure and Sharing in Southwestern Zaire (1984-1997)

177

(34)

Filip De Boeck

Globalization and the Power of Indeterminate Meaning: Witchcraft and Spirit Cults in Africa and East Asia

211

(28)

Peter Geschiere

Theoretical Reflections

Time and the Global: Against the Homogeneous, Empty Communities in Contemporary Social Theory

239

(34)

John D. Kelly

Globalization and Virtuality: Analytical Problems Posed by the Contemporary Transformation of African Societies

273

(32)

Wim van Binsbergen

Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization

305

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Arjun Appadurai

Epilogue: On Some Reports from a Free Space

325

(6)

Ulf Hannerz

Notes on Contributors

331

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Index

335

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Globalization and Identity Dialectics of Flow and Closure

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