Paul James
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9214-1641 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Janus faces of an intellectual life: Tom Nairn, nationalism and globalisation
does nationalism stand over the passage to modernity, for human society. As human kind is forced through its strait doorway, it must look desperately back into the past, to gather strength wherever it can be found for the ordeal of ‘development’ ... this is a rite de passage so terrible, so enforced by outside power, so fiercely destructive of all custom and tradition that there could never in the nature of things be any guarantee it would succee…
Stakeholder attitudes towards establishing a national genomics registry of inherited cancer predisposition: A qualitative study
Addressing a volatile subject: Adaptive measurement of Australian digital capacities
Measuring the dynamic shape of digital practices and their near-ubiquitous relationship to daily life is an elusive quest, one that must contend with temporal and relational limits. Research instruments employing categories and indicators struggle with the transient and interconnected character of the digital ‘social fact’. Longitudinal studies pose special difficulties: a 1990s study of browsing and searching would need to be updated to account …
Defining Populism and Fascism Relationally: Exploring Global Convergences in Unsettled Times
What is the relationship between right-wing populism and contemporary fascism? How has fascism changed since the 1920s? And how do the answers to these questions concern a global shift that can be called the Great Unsettling—including a postmodern fracturing of prior modern ‘certainties’ about the nature of subjectivity, political practice and meaning, deconstructing the consequences of ‘truth’? This essay seeks to respond to these questions by f…
Disability and migration in urban Australia: The case of Liverpool
This article presents and analyses population data on the Liverpool area of Greater Western Sydney, identifying trends with significant policy implications. Liverpool city is home to one of the highest concentrations of Australia's recent arrivals, many of whom have refugee backgrounds. From those who arrived under Australia's post‐Second World War resettlement programme to new arrivals, it is also home to a rich diversity of sociocultural and li…
Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times
At the turn of the twenty-first century, globalization - both the process and the idea - bestrode the world. Widely acclaimed by political and economic pundits as the most important phenomenon of our time, it took the world by storm. Two decades later, it has come under sustained attack by the re-invigorated forces of the extreme right and radical left. Does globalization still matter in our unsettled world? Responding in the affirmative, this st…
Neighbourhood-level marginalization and avoidable mortality in Ontario, Canada: A population-based study
Globalization Matters: Theories, Histories, Issues
Major Figures in the Field of Global Studies
The field of global studies and the study of globalization are intertwined. This chapter traces the emergence of the study of globalization from isolated elaborations in the 1950s to the bourgeoning of the field of global studies across the turn of the century to the present. The chapter seeks to explain the intermediate context for the explosion of attention to the question of globalization. It argues that two key clusters of social change stand…
Why nationalism did not emerge earlier in Timor-Leste: Customary Cultures Confront Globalising Modernism
This article explores Timor-Leste’s long history of colonial encounters with modernity and globalisation. Over a couple of centuries these forces contributed to creating a particular form of customary nationhood that differed from other nations which, on the face it, appear to have parallel histories. More than that, a sense of nationhood came later in Timor-Leste than in most colonial and postcolonial settings. Through an analysis of Timor’s pre…
Alternative Paradigms for Sustainability: Decentring the Human Without Becoming Posthuman
Humanitarian Intervention? Responding Ethically to Globalising Violence in the Age of Mediated Violence
Globalization: The Career of a Concept
One of the keywords of our time, ‘globalization’ frames how we understand our interconnected world. An ambiguous signifier carrying multiple meanings, the term is usually used to refer to the extension and intensification of social relations across the world. Many works have been authored that deal with various aspects of globalization. However, it is surprising that no critical history of the concept has yet provided a historical mapping of its …
Crisis and Differentiation among Small-Scale Sugar Cane Growers in Nkomazi, South Africa
Against a context of declining sugar output in South Africa as a whole, the sugar industry in the Nkomazi Municipality of Mpumalanga Province has increased its share of the South African market. It has achieved this over a period of significant change in ownership, with the transfer of at least 25 per cent of land growing sugar cane into black community ownership through South Africa's land reform programme. The industry now claims that the major…
Evaluating Progress in International Relations: How do you know?
The study of International Relations (IR) has undergone epistemological fracturing. Understandably, most scholars either have not been particularly interested in or know little about philosophy of science. Instead, they have concentrated on “doing” their research. Even when philosophy of science criteria are utilized, they often have been used implicitly or poorly. The result is that powerful available tools for facilitating dialogue and exchange…
Globalization and Politics
Despite the Terrors of Typologies: The Importance of Understanding Categories of Difference and Identity
Understanding how the identity of a Hutu person is different from a Tutsi and why nearly a million people were murdered in the name of this difference is not handled adequately in the current literature. Drawing on parts of the world as different as Rwanda and Sri Lanka, this essay takes up this theme through three main arguments. Firstly, categorizations about identity, even when hardened into ugly typologies by processes of colonization or stat…
Faces of globalization and the borders of states: From Asylum Seekers to Citizens
Intensifying processes of globalization have led to a series of tensions around the way in which even the most cosmopolitan democracies now treat people who move across their borders. Non-citizens have become problems. The postcolonial settler nation-states - Australia, Canada, the USA and others - were 'founded' by immigrants and refugees who moved globally to become citizens in these 'new lands'. Such countries were made by migrants displacing …
Closing Reflections: Confronting contradictions in biographies of nations and persons
The biography of a nation is not the same as the biography of a person. That much is simple. One is about a single person's life history and the other is about the formation of a community of persons. On the other hand, analytically describing how a biographical method can be used for both persons and nations is not straightforward. The central crossover occurs in the concept of 'the social'. An individual identity, like the projection of a natio…
Reframing social sustainability reporting: Towards an engaged approach
Three Dimensions of Subjective Globalization
Arguing that today's burgeoning globalization literature still neglects the investigation of powerful subjective dynamics of growing social interconnectivity, this article explores how various ideological articulations of globalization have shaped its material designs and instantiations. The thickening of global consciousness can be conceptualized along the three interrelated dimensions or layers of ideology, imaginary, and ontology. Each of thes…
Globalization and Culture
What are the consequences of globalization for the cultures it seems to undermine, even destroy, in favor of a single dominating model? Are religions also swept away in the whirlwind? Could they offer some poles of resistance
Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization?
Part 1: Globalizing Insecurity 1. Debating Insecurity in a Globalizing World: An Introduction Damian Grenfell and Paul James 2. Globalization and the Changing Face of War Paul James and Jonathan Friedman 3. Globalization and the Limits of Current Security Paradigms Ronaldo Munck 4. Global Capitalism and the Production of Insecurity James Goodman Part 2: Reconceptualizing Security 5. New Wars and the Therapeutic Security Paradigm Michael Humphrey …
Rethinking Security and Violence: Savage Globalization (Rethinking Globalizations)
Nationalism and global solidarities: Alternative Projections to Neoliberal Globalisation
This work provides an examination of the relationship between nationalism and globalisation, tackling the key questions and tensions this complex relationship is generating
Human Rights, Biomedical Science, and Infectious Diseases Among South American Indigenous Groups
Despite the efforts of international health agencies to reduce global health inequalities, indigenous populations around the world remain largely unaffected by such initiatives. This chapter reviews the biomedical literature indexed by the PubMed database published between 1963 and 2003 on South American indigenous populations, a total of 1864 studies that include 63,563 study participants. Some language family groupings are better represented th…
Arguing globalizations: Propositions towards an investigation of global formation
Theorizing globalization in all its contradictions and unevenness is still at a very formative stage. Too many theories are either characterized by reductive appropriations of the phenomenon or by studied vagueness. This article attempts to answer the question how can we set up a method for understanding such a variable set of processes associated with globalization(s) while still recognizing broad and changing dominant patterns of practice acros…
Neighbourhood-level marginalization and avoidable mortality in Ontario, Canada: A population-based study
Crisis and Differentiation among Small-Scale Sugar Cane Growers in Nkomazi, South Africa
Against a context of declining sugar output in South Africa as a whole, the sugar industry in the Nkomazi Municipality of Mpumalanga Province has increased its share of the South African market. It has achieved this over a period of significant change in ownership, with the transfer of at least 25 per cent of land growing sugar cane into black community ownership through South Africa's land reform programme. The industry now claims that the major…
Faces of globalization and the borders of states: From Asylum Seekers to Citizens
Intensifying processes of globalization have led to a series of tensions around the way in which even the most cosmopolitan democracies now treat people who move across their borders. Non-citizens have become problems. The postcolonial settler nation-states - Australia, Canada, the USA and others - were 'founded' by immigrants and refugees who moved globally to become citizens in these 'new lands'. Such countries were made by migrants displacing …
Disability and migration in urban Australia: The case of Liverpool
This article presents and analyses population data on the Liverpool area of Greater Western Sydney, identifying trends with significant policy implications. Liverpool city is home to one of the highest concentrations of Australia's recent arrivals, many of whom have refugee backgrounds. From those who arrived under Australia's post‐Second World War resettlement programme to new arrivals, it is also home to a rich diversity of sociocultural and li…
Why nationalism did not emerge earlier in Timor-Leste: Customary Cultures Confront Globalising Modernism
This article explores Timor-Leste’s long history of colonial encounters with modernity and globalisation. Over a couple of centuries these forces contributed to creating a particular form of customary nationhood that differed from other nations which, on the face it, appear to have parallel histories. More than that, a sense of nationhood came later in Timor-Leste than in most colonial and postcolonial settings. Through an analysis of Timor’s pre…
Reframing the nation-state: Rethinking the Australian dream from the local to the global
The Greenhouse Bandwagon∗
National Formation and the 'Rise of the Cultural: A Critique of Orthodoxy
Deux ouvrages sur Malthus
National Formation and the 'Rise of the Cultural: A Critique of Orthodoxy
Forms of Abstract "Community" From Tribe and Kingdom to Nation and State
Apart from a few notable exceptions, the current retreat from Grand Theory has been accompanied by a reluctance to think about how we might theorize different forms of social formation. The present study began as an attempt to understand one such community form, the nation. However, in delineating an analytical method that allowed the theoretical space for exploring the ontological contradictions endemic to living as part of a national community,…
The Greenhouse Bandwagon∗
Relating Global Tensions: Modern Tribalism and Postmodern Nationalism
What is the relationship in the contemporary world between the abstract global ‘peace’ of state-initiated violence from above, and the embodied violence of persons hacking into others with machetes as they lay on the ground? Can this be explained simply in terms of the difference between the rationalising modern nation–state and resurgent tribalism? This essay explores the contradictions associated with peace and violence in a globalising–localis…
Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism
Arguing globalizations: Propositions towards an investigation of global formation
Theorizing globalization in all its contradictions and unevenness is still at a very formative stage. Too many theories are either characterized by reductive appropriations of the phenomenon or by studied vagueness. This article attempts to answer the question how can we set up a method for understanding such a variable set of processes associated with globalization(s) while still recognizing broad and changing dominant patterns of practice acros…
Human Rights, Biomedical Science, and Infectious Diseases Among South American Indigenous Groups
Despite the efforts of international health agencies to reduce global health inequalities, indigenous populations around the world remain largely unaffected by such initiatives. This chapter reviews the biomedical literature indexed by the PubMed database published between 1963 and 2003 on South American indigenous populations, a total of 1864 studies that include 63,563 study participants. Some language family groupings are better represented th…
Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back in
'Paul James has written a magnificent account of the world's current condition, one that highlights the complexities and contradictions with which people, communities, and nations must contend and that does so in a compelling and creative style. Stressing the interaction between global and local forces, his writing style is lively and compelling as well as peppered with a wide range of citations, from Woman's Day to the Cambodian Daily (on the sa…
Nationalism and global solidarities: Alternative Projections to Neoliberal Globalisation
This work provides an examination of the relationship between nationalism and globalisation, tackling the key questions and tensions this complex relationship is generating
Reframing the nation-state: Rethinking the Australian dream from the local to the global
Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization?
Part 1: Globalizing Insecurity 1. Debating Insecurity in a Globalizing World: An Introduction Damian Grenfell and Paul James 2. Globalization and the Changing Face of War Paul James and Jonathan Friedman 3. Globalization and the Limits of Current Security Paradigms Ronaldo Munck 4. Global Capitalism and the Production of Insecurity James Goodman Part 2: Reconceptualizing Security 5. New Wars and the Therapeutic Security Paradigm Michael Humphrey …
Rethinking Security and Violence: Savage Globalization (Rethinking Globalizations)
Globalization and Culture
What are the consequences of globalization for the cultures it seems to undermine, even destroy, in favor of a single dominating model? Are religions also swept away in the whirlwind? Could they offer some poles of resistance
Three Dimensions of Subjective Globalization
Arguing that today's burgeoning globalization literature still neglects the investigation of powerful subjective dynamics of growing social interconnectivity, this article explores how various ideological articulations of globalization have shaped its material designs and instantiations. The thickening of global consciousness can be conceptualized along the three interrelated dimensions or layers of ideology, imaginary, and ontology. Each of thes…
Closing Reflections: Confronting contradictions in biographies of nations and persons
The biography of a nation is not the same as the biography of a person. That much is simple. One is about a single person's life history and the other is about the formation of a community of persons. On the other hand, analytically describing how a biographical method can be used for both persons and nations is not straightforward. The central crossover occurs in the concept of 'the social'. An individual identity, like the projection of a natio…
Reframing social sustainability reporting: Towards an engaged approach
Globalization and Politics
Despite the Terrors of Typologies: The Importance of Understanding Categories of Difference and Identity
Understanding how the identity of a Hutu person is different from a Tutsi and why nearly a million people were murdered in the name of this difference is not handled adequately in the current literature. Drawing on parts of the world as different as Rwanda and Sri Lanka, this essay takes up this theme through three main arguments. Firstly, categorizations about identity, even when hardened into ugly typologies by processes of colonization or stat…
Faces of globalization and the borders of states: From Asylum Seekers to Citizens
Intensifying processes of globalization have led to a series of tensions around the way in which even the most cosmopolitan democracies now treat people who move across their borders. Non-citizens have become problems. The postcolonial settler nation-states - Australia, Canada, the USA and others - were 'founded' by immigrants and refugees who moved globally to become citizens in these 'new lands'. Such countries were made by migrants displacing …
Evaluating Progress in International Relations: How do you know?
The study of International Relations (IR) has undergone epistemological fracturing. Understandably, most scholars either have not been particularly interested in or know little about philosophy of science. Instead, they have concentrated on “doing” their research. Even when philosophy of science criteria are utilized, they often have been used implicitly or poorly. The result is that powerful available tools for facilitating dialogue and exchange…
Alternative Paradigms for Sustainability: Decentring the Human Without Becoming Posthuman
Humanitarian Intervention? Responding Ethically to Globalising Violence in the Age of Mediated Violence
Globalization: The Career of a Concept
One of the keywords of our time, ‘globalization’ frames how we understand our interconnected world. An ambiguous signifier carrying multiple meanings, the term is usually used to refer to the extension and intensification of social relations across the world. Many works have been authored that deal with various aspects of globalization. However, it is surprising that no critical history of the concept has yet provided a historical mapping of its …
Crisis and Differentiation among Small-Scale Sugar Cane Growers in Nkomazi, South Africa
Against a context of declining sugar output in South Africa as a whole, the sugar industry in the Nkomazi Municipality of Mpumalanga Province has increased its share of the South African market. It has achieved this over a period of significant change in ownership, with the transfer of at least 25 per cent of land growing sugar cane into black community ownership through South Africa's land reform programme. The industry now claims that the major…
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