Interpreting Globalization: Polish Perspectives on Culture in the Globalized World

by Leszek Koczanowicz (Editor), Piotr Jakub Ferenski (Editor), Joanna Panciuchin (Editor)

Overview

The main hypothesis of the volume is that globalization is a cultural phenomenon. Therefore, the book offers an explanation of how globalization emerged from cultural exchange between groups, nations, and religions. The articles in this volume register the thematically multi-dimensional and theoretically complex contribution of Polish research on globalization. Polish debates on globalization, as presented in this book, on the one hand reflect international disputes and controversies, and on the other hand address local issues. As their crucial feature, the articles in this volume exhibit a special sensitivity to historical and contemporary cultural contexts. They do not approach globalization as an abstract process, instead exploring it through the lens of clearly defined factors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004443785
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/18/2021
Series:	Value Inquiry Book Series / Central European Value Studies Series , #361
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Leszek Koczanowicz Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science and Cultural Studies at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the author and editor of thirteen books and numerous articles in Polish and English.

Piotr Jakub Fereński works at the University of Wroclaw and is the author of nearly 120 publications, an art critic and exhibition curator. He conducts research in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and in South and North America.

Joanna Panciuchin is Ph.D. Candidate of Cultural Studies at the University of Wroclaw and of Pedagogy at the University of Lower Silesia. She is the co-editor of the scientific journal Culture - History - Globalization and has published in Cultural Studies and PRAXEMA. Journal of Visual Semiotics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Thinking Globally
  Piotr Jakub Fereński, Leszek Koczanowicz and Joanna Panciuchin

PART 1
Cultural Theory of Globalization

1 Generality and Universality in Globalization
  Leszek Kopciuch

2 The Status of Global Studies and Transformations in the Social Sciences
  Franciszek Czech

3 Musicology and Globalization
  Bożena Muszkalska

PART 2
 Cultural History of Globalization

4 Towards Historical Performatics?
 Gesture as the Origin of Speech. A Case Study
  Mirosław Kocur

5 “There Is Neither Barbarian Nor Greek…”
 On the Tools of the Globalist Interpretation of History in Medieval Thought. An Example of the Reception of New-Testamental Ideas in the Historiography of the 11th and 12th Centuries
  Stanisław Rosik

6 Were the Natural Sciences Global in the 19th Century? The Case of Charles Darwin
  Piotr Badyna

7 The Spanish “Crisis of the 17th Century”
  Magdalena Barbaruk

8 Nation-Forming Processes in Latin America
 A New Integration Model?
  Tadeusz Paleczny

PART 3
Contemporary Culture and Globalization

9 From Córdoba to Tora Bora
 Globalization in the World of Islam, the World of Islam vis-à-vis Globalization
  Daniel Boćkowski

10 Locality and Globality: Various Dimensions of Money
  Adam Nobis

11 Global Paths of Cultural Institutions
 Attendance, Participation, or Education
  Karolina Golinowska

12 The Political Role of Cities: A Global Perspective
  Piotr Jakub Fereński

13 One Wrong Turn: Doug Rickard in the World of Google Street View
  Rafał Nahirny

Index