This class is designed to explore reimaginations of and interconnections among anti-colonial liberation struggles in the 1960s-1970s period as a distinct political dimension of the historically formed globalization of society. Part I foregrounds the class with an introduction into canonical and contemporary theories of globalization with a particular focus on Niklas Luhmann's world society theory. Using the sensitizing tools of these theories, Part II then zooms in on the globalizing self-descriptions of the African American civil rights movement, the South African anti-apartheid struggle, and the Palestinian liberation struggle. These self-descriptions serve as the case material on the basis of which political processes of globalization can be empirically and historically studied. Part III draws conclusions for globalization research by fleshing out the distinctive mechanisms of globalization engendered by interconnections among liberation struggles, set in relief against other function-specific (religious, legal, scientific, etc.) mechanisms of globalization.
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30-M-Soz-M8a Soziologie der globalen Welt a | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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30-M-Soz-M8b Soziologie der globalen Welt b | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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30-M-Soz-M8c Soziologie der globalen Welt c | Seminar 1 | Study requirement
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