Scenarios for the Twenty-first Century World
Ulf Hannerz
Abstract Since the end of Cold War, and again since September 11, 2001, a number global scenarios for present near future have appeared—“the history,” “the clash civilizations,” “Jihad vs. McWorld,” world is flat,” others. These cross boundary between academic public arenas, reach large transnational audiences, interact with international reporting, lead to critiques debates. This genre writings can be scrutinized at two levels: regard theoretical credibility factual accuracy, as significant components in an emergent cosmopolitan collective consciousness, set representations circulating world-wide web social relationships.
Asian Anthropology