UBC Press Globalization and Autonomy Series
Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era
This volume addresses directly the challenge of possible tensions between autonomy, democracy, and legitimacy in an era of globalization. In doing so, it examines how differences might be accommodated in a legitimate way, changing notions of citizenship, the meaning of autonomy when democracy is delinked from the state, and the challenges to political accountability.
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Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts
By addressing the coercive and comforting dimensions of community and the need to reconcile conflicting claims to autonomy, this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.
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Cultural Autonomy: Frictions and Connections
This volume examines the transformations and ruptures produced by globalization
in the wide range of cultural sites and practices through which meaning is created,
circulated, and contested in the world today. It looks at the links between culture
and autonomy and transformations of the autonomy of culture itself.
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Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy: Insights for a Global Age
This volume explores the ways in which a particular perspective emerging from an involvement with Indigenous issues may inform the more general ways in which globalization and autonomy are theorized and conceived. It examines political philosophies, networks and connections, and the ways that images and constructions of Indigenous Peoples and politics are circulated, appropriated, and reshaped in a variety of contexts.
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Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization
Using the device of historical moments, this book provides a series of windows, at different times and places, for viewing the dynamic relationships between the processes of globalization and the loss or gain of autonomy. In examining the possible historical continuities and discontinuities in globalization, the book stresses the importance of empires and imperialism and their changing characteristics over time.
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Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World
This volume begins with the recognition that global ordering through the reconfiguration
of existing sites of authority, the dissolution of others, and the creation of
new ones encompasses a wide range of institutions. It focuses on the possibilities
of evolving forms of authority that steer behaviour toward outcomes deemed sufficiently
just and efficient to be stable, under the twin conditions of pressures for global
integration and demands for autonomy.
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Deux Méditerranées: Les voies de la mondialisation et de l'autonomie
This volume chooses the Mediterranean basin as a privileged site because of its
cultural richness and its key geopolitical strategic position. As such, it provides
a key microcosm of North-South relations for studying globalization and autonomy
relationships.
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Globalization and Autonomy: Conversing across Disciplines
This volume examines the cross-currents, intertwinings, and interactions emerging from three thematic areas: world history and rupture, power and authority, and social collectivities and identities. In reflecting on the dialectical relationships between globalization and autonomy, it contemplates the changes to ways of living in the contemporary world.
Property, Territory, Globalization: Struggles over Autonomy
This volume explores the historical roots and contemporary dimensions of the
relationship between globalization and capitalism. To do so, it looks through
a window very important for studying autonomy: the history of changes in conceptions
of property and property rights.
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