Dietrich Jung is Professor and Head of the Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Stephan Stetter is Professor of World Politics and Conflict Studies at the Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany/EU and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. 

1. Chapter 1 Why Study Modern Subjectivities in World Society? An Introduction by Dietrich Jung and Stephan Stetter

Part I: World Society and Modern Subjectivity: Conceptual Reformulation

2. Modern Subjectivities and World Political Order: Differentiation, Inclusion/Exclusion, and the Evolution of the International by Stephan Stetter

3. Modern Subjectivity and the Emergence of Global Modernity: Syntax and Semantics of Modern Times by Dietrich Jung

Part II: The Politics of Modern Subjectivities in World Society

4. Globalization and Nationalist Subjectivities by SiniSa MaleSevic

5. Colonial Globality, Postcolonial Subjectivities in the Middle East by Pinar Bilgin

6. The Everyday Production of Modern Subjectivity in World Society: Global Structures Meet Local Practices in Palestine by Jan Busse

Part III: World Society, Modern Subjectivity, and Religion

7. Defiant Subjects: Religion in World Polity Theory and Public Discourse by Paul Bramadat

9. Modern Subjectivities, Religious Belief, and Irony in Everyday Life by George M. Thomas

Part IV: Alternative Subjectivities: Technology and the Anthropocene

10. In-between Machines: The Global, Local, and Automobile Subjectivity Formation by Martin Ledstrup

11. Incorporating Nonhuman Subjectivity into World Society. The Case for Extending Personhood to Plants by Thomas J. Puleo

This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation. It addresses a theoretical void in global studies by attending to the co-constituted process through which modern subjectivities and global processes emerge and interact. The editors outline a key problem in global studies, which is a lack of engagement between the local/particular/individual and the 'universalising' processes in which they are situated. The volume deals with this concern with contributions from historical sociologists, poststructuralist and postcolonial scholars and by focusing in the Middle East, religion in global modernity and non-human subjectivities.