Borderlines in a Globalized World

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Reconceptionalizations of the Global: Borderlines in the World-system

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Continual Reconstruction of Multiple Modern Civilizations and Collective Identities

      • Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt

      Pages 3-12

   3. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective Reflecting on Some Non-Rhetorical Questions

      • Christopher Chase-Dunn

      Pages 13-34

   4. World-Systems, Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis

      • Thomas D. Hall

      Pages 35-66

   5. After History

      • Richard E. Lee

      Pages 67-82

3. Defining Borderlines in the World-System: The Emergence of New Memberships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Globalization and the Evolution of Membership

      • Gerhard Preyer

      Pages 85-98

   3. Enacting Globalization

      • Barrie Axford

      Pages 99-124

   4. Immigration and the Open Society

      • Mathias Bös

      Pages 125-140

   5. A Transformation of National Identity?

      • Uta Gerhardt, Birgitta Hohenester

      Pages 141-172

4. The Global and the Local: The Collapse and Reconstruction of Borderlines

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. The Collapse of the Moral Boundaries of Peripheral Countries

      • Christie Davies, Eugene Trivizas

      Pages 175-188

   3. Beyond "East" and "West"

      • Peter Wagner

      Pages 189-215

   4. Socio-Economic Restructurings of the Local Settings in the Era of Globalization

      • Francisco Entrena

      Pages 217-228

5. Back Matter

   Pages 229-239

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Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. To understand these contemporary developments this book employs innovative concepts, strategies of research, and explanations. Globalization is a metaphor for different borderstructures, new borderlines, and conditions of membership, which emerge in a global world-system. As a world-system expands it incorporates new territories and new peoples. The process of incorporation creates frontiers or boundaries of the world-system. These frontiers or boundary zones are the locus of resistance to incorporation, ethnogenesis, ethnic transformation, and ethnocide.

• Evolution
• Moral
• Nation
• Transformation
• Transnational
• globalization
• migration
• sociology

• J. W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  G. Preyer

• Institut für Soziologie, Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany

  M. Bös

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