Social Changes in a Global World
Social Changes in a Global World
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Ulrike Schuerkens 2017
First published 2017
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About the Author
Ulrike Schuerkensstudied at the Universities of Cologne (Germany) and Rennes (France). She has doctorates in both sociology, and social anthropology and ethnology, from the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She received the diploma
Habilitation diriger des recherches from the University Paris V Ren Descartes. Currently, she is a professor of sociology at the University Rennes 2, France. She also teaches in the master and PhD program of the
cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. She also taught as a lecturer at the University Lille 3 (France) and at Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany). She was a visiting professor at the Universities Paris 1 and Paris V, University of Cologne (Germany), Rouen Business School and others. Ulrike Schuerkens has served for many years in different functions as a member of the board of the Research Committee on Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, RC 09 of the International Sociological Association. She is presently the co-president of RC 09 and is on the editorial board of several international journals. She has published extensively on globalization, glocalization, socio-economic development, social change, transnational migrations, multiculturalism, and colonialism. Her latest monographs are
Soziale Transformationen und Entwicklung(en) in einer globalisierten Welt (Juventa, 2014),
Global Management, Local Resistances (ed., Routledge, 2014),
The Socio-economic Outcomes of the Global Financial Crisis (ed., Routledge, 2012),
Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality (ed., Routledge, 2010),
Globalization and Transformations of Local Socio-Economic Practices (ed., Routledge, 2008), Transnational Migrations and Social Transformations (ed.,
Current Sociology, 2005, 53 (4)),
Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds: Social Transformations (ed., Sage, 2004),
Changement social sous rgime colonial: Du Togo allemand aux Togo et Ghana indpendants (LHarmattan, 2001),
Transformationsprozesse in der Elfenbeinkste und in Ghana (Lit, 2001).
Preface
I want to thank my colleagues Professor Nina Bandelj, Professor Habibul H. Khondker, and Professor Dieter Neubert for the valuable information and helpful comments on an earlier version of this book. My thanks also go to the Publisher for Politics, Criminology, & Sociology at SAGE Publishing, Natalie Aguilera who suggested to write this book on global social change and who has supported the preparation of the manuscript with many valuable comments. My special thanks go to the section Development Sociology and Social Anthropology of the German Sociological Association. At their conferences in the last years, I could give talks on these topics in individual sessions or plenaries. I would like to especially thank the publishers Sage, Routledge, and Lit that kindly authorized me to take some parts of individual theoretical chapters of my books published mostly in English in an earlier, largely modified version. I would also like to thank the Research Committee 09 Sociology of Development and Social Transformations of the International Sociological Association that I have been honoured to chair for a number of years. The Research Committees sessions organized at conferences in Brisbane (Australia 2002), Durban (South Africa 2006), Barcelona (Spain 2008), Gothenburg (Sweden 2010), Buenos Aires (Argentina 2012), Yokohama (Japan 2014), and Vienna (Austria 2016), and on the occasion of World Congresses of the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) in Krakow (Poland 2001), Beijing (China 2004), and Stockholm (Sweden 2005) helped to prepare the various edited books that I have published in recent years on issues of social change and globalization possible. Thanks also to the many conference participants, the young students, and experienced colleagues who have contributed with their case studies to these volumes, which have become resources for some short case studies in individual chapters of this book. My thanks also go to my colleagues at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and to those from the German-speaking universities that have contributed to this research on global-local aspects of societies. Furthermore, l would like to thank my students at the EHESS in the master program tude comparative du dveloppement and the PhD program Socits Territoires Dveloppement who have commented on the various chapters and the individual topics of this book with their enthusiasm that has contributed to improve my understanding of these research fields. For many years, I have greatly enjoyed teaching and research with these groups working on similar topics.
Finally, I want to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on my book proposal and the first chapters of this book at Sage. They have ensured that some of my ideas could develop in a most productive way. Last but not least, I am responsible for any remaining shortcomings that were hard to avoid in the breadth of the tackled topics.
I dedicate this book to my late mother who always supported my projects and ideas throughout my career. I have to thank her for her continuous understanding of my objectives.
Paris, August 2016
Acknowledgements
: Transformations of Local Socio-economic Practices in a Global World, Copyright 2008 From Globalization and Transformations of Local Socio-Economic Practices
