Globalization, Difference, and Human Security

Globalization, Difference, and Human Security seeks to advance Critical Human Security Studies by reframing the concept of human security in terms of the thematic of difference. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, each chapter is framed around the following questions:

• What are the principal interconnections between cultural disintegration and new registers of ethnic, religious, or sectarian conflicts?
• What are the contradictory effects of top-down globalization and the emergence of transcultural identities?
• Is multiculturalism an adequate framework to cope with the erosion of homogenizing impulses?
• Can new capacities be created in the context of globalizing processes that mitigate conflict?
• What is the impact of social connectedness on a world scale on the emergence of transcultural modalities of identity formation and identity management?
• Can the processes of economic and political transition under conditions of time-space compression fruitfully permit individuals and communities to avoid cultural involution or homogenization?

Seeking to push the boundaries of the field this work will be of interest to students and scholars alike.