The Politics of Globality since 1945 - 9781138477605

Taylor & Francis

The Politics of Globality since 1945Assembling the Planet\nAuthor(s): Rens van Munster, Casper Sylvest\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138477605, 978-1138477605\nSynopsis\nThis timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality. It shows that technological innovations and decisive developments since 1945 from the nuclear revolution to anthropogenic climate change and debates about the Anthropocene have prompted reflections on the global condition of humanity and helped reshape political communities by making the world (appear) small, manageable and interconnected.\n\nThe contributors stress how human beings have transformed both their habitat and their view of human-earth relations since 1945. Such changes have been accompanied by important shifts in political visions, prompted new forms of human association, encouraged l.