...Mainstream modernization and secularization theories once predicted a gradual decline in the importance of religion as a factor in people’s political orientations. Evidence has not borne out this prediction, with the persistence of religious affiliation in contemporary societies and the role...

... impossible due to the inherent perpetual instability of the turbulence of ecosystems. ecological modernization ecomodernism and ecomodernist post environmentalist pragmatist resilience turbulence capitalism geo constructivism hypermodernity and hypermodernist Latour Bruno nonhuman Nordhaus Ted...

... renewal projects at home and modernization and development projects such as Truman’s Point Four plan abroad, Naked Lunch focalizes the nascent political, economic, aesthetic, and psychological transformations that occur as a new system of US global hegemony was forged. Avila Eric blight...

...This chapter explores the consequences of Chinese attempts at modernization and urbanization as imposed upon Tibet. It examines the likely shifts to occur in Tibet's ethnographic demography as a result of China's efforts at economic development, before surveying the latter in greater detail...

...This chapter reframes noir from the semi-peripheral space of Mexican cinema. The chapter studies noir in Mexican cinema and literature in the context of the history of Fordist capitalism, American-style modernization, and contemporary neoliberalism. Drawing on readings of a range of different films...

...This book, which ranges between the fields of sociology, political science, philosophy, cultural anthropology, and literature, offers a critique of normative models of modernization derived from Eurocentric and North Atlantic paradigms, while claiming that autonomous paths to modernity exist...