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Grounded globalism : how the U.S. South embraces the world
- Title
- Grounded globalism : how the U.S. South embraces the world / James L. Peacock.
- Author
- Peacock, James L.
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xi, 311 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Anthropologist James L. Peacock looks at the South of both the present and the past to develop the idea of "grounded globalism," in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways. Peacock's focus is on a particular part of the world; however, his model is widely relevant: "Some kind of grounding in locale is necessary to human beings."" "Grounded Globalism draws on perspectives from fields as diverse as ecology, anthropology, religion, and history to move us beyond the model, advanced by such scholars as C. Vann Woodward, that depicts the South as a region paralyzed by the burden of its past. Peacock notes that while globalism may lift old burdens, it may at the same time impose new ones. He also maintains that earlier regional identities have not been replaced by the rootless cosmopolitanism of cyberspace or other abstracted systems. Attachments to place remain, even as worldwide markets erase boundaries and flatten out differences and distinctions among nations. Those attachments exert their own pressures back on globalism, says Peacock, with subtle strengths we should not discount."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- The new Southern studies
- Uniform Title
- New southern studies.
- Subject
- Cosmopolitanism > Southern States
- Globalization > Social aspects > Southern States
- Group identity > Southern States
- Cultural pluralism > Civilization
- Regionalism > Southern States
- Political culture > Southern States
- Arts and society > Southern States
- Southern States > Civilization > 21st century
- Southern States > Civilization
- Southern States > Religion
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-294) and index.
- Contents
- 1. A model -- 2. The South as/in the world -- 3. From oppositionality to integration -- 4. Dualism to pluralism : global diversity on Southern ground -- 5. Southern space : from sense of place to force field -- 6. Meaning : religion in the GlobaI South -- 7. Subjectivities : meaning making in the changing South -- 8. Politics : is globalism liberal? : is a local focus conservative?
- ISBN
- 9780820328683 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0820328685 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007015453
- OCLC
- 123539322
- SCSB-5352099
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries