Subversions of international order

Description:

In this series of essays, the author shifts the focus of anthropology from a study of discrete cultures to one of alternative and sub-versions of large-scale global orders. Borneman employs new descriptive tools to analyze political disorder and its representation, issues which have become central with the end of the Cold War. Despite living in an era when group legitimacy depends on the ability to approximate national form, we have instead been witnessing the dissolution of coherent identities and nations. Ethnographically, Borneman focuses on these transformations in Germany during the disintegration and collapse of the socialist project, concentrating on relations between the first and the second Worlds.

subjects: Homosexuality,  International relations,  National characteristics,  Political anthropology,  Political aspects,  Political aspects of Homosexuality,  Political culture,  Political socialization,  World politics,  Homosexuality, political aspects