Culture Wars from a Global Perspective

Mountain or Molehill?
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-97133-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Are culture wars defining struggles of our time, or the noisy surface of deeper economic, social, and geopolitical transformations? This book is a much-needed global account of today’s high-stakes struggles over cultural legitimacy—conflicts in which competing ways of life confront one another.

Moving beyond the field’s Anglo-American default, the volume tracks how culture-war conflicts travel across borders, adapt to local histories, yet reproduce familiar dynamics of moral polarization and struggles over cultural legitimacy. “Hot-button issues” vary sharply from case to case; what recurs is the underlying contest over which ways of life count as legitimate and who gets to draw the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. Across theoretically driven, empirically rich case studies—Russia’s state-sponsored “traditional values,” Brazil’s battle for democracy and moral authority, Sweden’s canon debates, France’s far-right politics of humor, Japan’s wars over imperial memory, India’s “culture peace” around yoga, South Africa’s post-apartheid conflicts over tradition, language and justice, and a long historical view of America’s recurring eruptions—the contributors map culture wars in their local specificity and global entanglement.

Comparative and conceptually sharp, the book offers scholars a reframed vocabulary for analyzing culture wars, while remaining accessible to undergraduates, postgraduates, and non-specialist readers.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Royer, Christof

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

It’s the Culture Wars (Stupid)!: An Introduction 1. Russia’s Traditional Values and the Global Culture Wars 2. The Struggle for Brazil’s Soul: Culture Wars and the Fight for Hegemony 3. The Search for the Soul of the Rainbow Nation: Culture Wars in Post-Apartheid South Africa 4. “Victory or Death”: Culture War and the Politicization of Culture in Sweden 5. Western Mountain, Chinese Molehill?: Sensitivity, Discipline and Gender Discourse in Contemporary China 6. The Molehill Defense: Humor, Immunity, and the French Far-Right 7. Constructing Reactionary Common Sense: Japanese Historical Revisionism and the Global Right 8. Yoga in India’s Culture Wars: Devdutt Pattanaik, Mythology, and Belonging 9. Culture War in the United States: Us versus Them and the Quest for Domination. Conclusion: Moles in the Ground

Über Autor(innen)

Christof Royer is Assistant Professor at Forward College, Paris. His research is situated at the intersection of political theory, political theory, and international relations. He is the author of Evil as a Crime against Humanity (2021) and Why Open Society Matters (2027).