Worldview Flux
Perplexed Values for Postmodern Peoples
Worldview Flux
Perplexed Values for Postmodern Peoples
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Description
The most salient feature of the postmodern world, believe geographers Jim Norwine and Jonathan M. Smith, is a new set of beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions that are not yet well developed or widely diffused, so that few if any postmodern people are entirely of the new world or the old. People are "perplexed," their values inchoate. Worldview Flux defines and describes the nature of perplexity and documents the shifts and changes of the postmodern world that lead to it, attending especially to the ways changes are experienced in particular places and human communities. In theoretical chapters contributors explain the reasons for our disoriented and disorienting world; empirical chapters describe strategies developed by individuals and communities to preserve, recover, or reinvent lost values, meaning, and identity. This volume is an accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking exploration of cultural geography in our time.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 When the Landscape Seems to Break Up, Vacillate, and Quake
Chapter 3 "I Love You, Man": Values in Flux
Part 4 Postmodern Peoples
Chapter 5 White Ethnics and the Romance of Place
Chapter 6 Postmodernity and the Borderlands: Symbolic Democracy and Ethnic Disparities
Chapter 7 "You Might Be a Cajun If . . .": The Tenacity of Place in a Changing World
Chapter 8 Afrikaner Identity in Late Twentieth-Century South Africa: Struggle, Trek, and Rootedness
Chapter 9 The Hunt for Identity: On the Contested Targets of Makah Whaling
Chapter 10 Asian Indian Americans in South Florida: Values and Identity
Chapter 11 Environmental Perspectives: Lost or Found in Postmodernity
Part 12 Dissenters
Chapter 13 The Moral Imperative of Late Capitalism
Chapter 14 Hubcap Commitment and Madcap Morality: Encouraging Signs Along Postmodern Paths of Uncertainty
Product details
| Published | 28 Jun 2000 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 296 |
| ISBN | 9780739162729 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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