Overview
- Examines a mass movement that has grown in response to globalization
- Explores how to harness the motivations behind localism for the benefit of individuals, communities, and the more-than-human environment
- Redefines the here-and-now in the contexts of digitization and globalization
Part of the book series: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress (NAHP, volume 10)
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This book examines “New Localism' – exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization. It details the ideas that have created a political force that academics have often misunderstood and provides a template for further investigation with a strong focus on how to harness the motivations behind such changes for the benefit of individuals, communities and the more-than-human environment.
The book discusses human progress, both individual and collective, in terms of the interactions of the local and the global, the specific and the universal, and the concrete and the abstract. It also considers how forms of social progress can be understood and reconfigured in the context of the rejection of certain aspects of liberal intelligentsia orthodoxy over recent years.
Developing his arguments with specific reference to the evolving, political landscape, the author helpsreaders to understand major events such as the Trump presidency and the British vote to leave the EU from a fully semiotic perspective. He also explains how educational processes can use and respond to such events in ways that are locally grounded but nevertheless not at odds with more abstract formulations of progress such as sustainability and social justice.
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Book Title: New Localism
Book Subtitle: Living in the Here and Now
Authors: Andrew Stables
Series Title: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21579-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21578-1Published: 28 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21581-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21579-8Published: 18 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2510-442X
Series E-ISSN: 2510-4438
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 112
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Economic Geography, Education, general, Environment, general