How are global forces impacting on local lifestyles? Where does the personal stand in relation to globalization? Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds explores these questions using a mixture of sociological and anthropological analysis and case study methods. Demonstrating the tensions between retaining cultural integrity in the face of the levelling processes associated with modernity, this book: locates the problems of globalization and localization in the appropriate anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the relationship between culture and identity; and explores the varieties of modernity.

Preface - Willfried Spohn
Social Transformations Between Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds - Ulrike Schuerkens
Introduction
The Sociological and Anthropological Study of Globalization and Localization - Ulrike Schuerkens
PART ONE: SYSTEMATIC COMPARISONS ACROSS EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES
Culture, Identity, and Hegemony - Lauren Langman
The Body in a Global Age
`Ethnicity is Everywhere¿ - Helmuth Berking
On Globalization and the Transformation of Cultural Identity
Multiple Modernity, Nationalism and Religion - A Global Perspective - Willfried Spohn
Structural Change in Western Africa as a Legacy of European Colonialism - Ulrike Schuerkens
The Labour System in Ghana and the Ivory Coast
Glocalization of Law - Shalini Randeria
Environmental Justice, World Bank, NGOs and the Cunning State in India
Knowledge between Globalization and Localization - Christine M[um]uller
The Dynamics of Female Spaces in Ghana
PART TWO: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES
Transnational Migration and Development in Postwar Peripheral States - Eric Popkin
An Examination of Guatemalan and Salvadoran State Linkages with their Migrant Populations in Los Angeles
Particularizing the Global - Nina Bandelj
Reception of Foreign Direct Investment in Slovenia
Disintegration and Resilience of Agrarian Societies in Africa - the Importance of Social and Genetic Resources - Marina Padr[ti}ao Temudo and Ulrich Schiefer
A Case Study on the Reception of Urban War Refugees in the South of Guinea-Bissau
Paradise Lost? Social Change and Fäafafine in Samoa - Johanna Schmidt
Autochthonous Australian Syncretism - George Morgan