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Title Between jihad and McWorld : voices of social justice : papers presented at a conference with Benjamin Barber / edited by David Perusek
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) : illustrations
Contents Painting justice : sources for the holy war series / Susan Jarvis -- Globalism, post-modernism and the dislocation of the self / Cecile Brennan -- Between jihad and McWorld : questions of culture and cultural relativism / David Perusek -- The information service sector : a global factor in terrorism's decline and democracy's expansion? / Elaine P. Hocevar and Ernest M. De Zolt -- The varieties of democracies and the McWorld jihad / Roy Lechtreck -- Inequality and downward mobility at the heart of McWorld / Carol A. Puthoff-Murray -- Palestine in the American mind, Palestine in discourse : George W. Bush at the rose garden / Luke Peterson -- Imperialism as the root of jihadism / Payman Nasr -- Social justice and accommodating diversity in Northern Ireland / Timothy J. White -- American notions of jihad, the Israel lobby, and its role in the US war party between 9/11 and September 2006 / Norman Arthur Fischer -- Keynote address / Benjamin Barber -- Jihad as struggle : can the war in Iraq be won? / Irene Fiala -- Knowledge ownership : intellectual property law, cultural rights and the politics of economic globalization / Irena Knezevic -- Teaching for democracy in post-9/11 America : autobiography of a risk society in post-national space / JoVictoria Nicholson-Goodman -- Inequality, education and globalization / Edward J. Murray -- Breaking free of McWorld : a portrait of the revolutionary / Joseph P. Vincenzo
Summary This volume is the outgrowth of a conference aimed at situating questions of social justice Otherin the broad social-historical context of our times as outlined by Benjamin Barber in the international bestseller Jihad vs. McWorld. In it, 15 contributors from across the academic spectrum grapple Other questions of inequality, culture, communication, education, language, representation, democracy, poverty and power in a variety of local, global, and cross-cultural contexts that extend from North ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-2017. Jihad vs. McWorld -- Congresses
SUBJECT Jihad vs. McWorld (Barber, Benjamin R.) fast
Subject Social justice -- Congresses
Social issues & processes.
Geopolitics.
Political science & theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Social justice
Social rättvisa.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Perusek, David.
LC no. 2010413937
ISBN 9781443820424
1443820423
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9781282624146
9786612624148
6612624140