Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation state' and `national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.

Globalization, Modernity and the Spatialization of Social Theory - Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash An IntroductionGlocalization - Roland Robertson Time-Space and Homogeneity-HeterogeneityGlobalization as Hybridization - Jan Nederveen PieterseGlobal System, Globalization and the Parameters of Modernity - Jonathan FriedmanNew World Order or Neo-World Orders - Timothy W Luke Power, Politics and Ideology in Informationalizing GlocalitiesThe Times and Spaces of Modernity (or Who Needs Postmodernism?) - Anthony D KingRoutes to/through Modernity - G[um]oran TherbornSearching for a Centre that Holds - Zygmunt BaumanSecurity, Philosophy and Politics - Michael DillonNormality - Exception - Counter-knowledge - Benno Wagner On the History of a Modern FascinationTime, Space, Memory with Reference to Bachelard - Ann GameThe Soviet Individual - Oleg Kharkhordin Genealogy of a Dissimulating AnimalBio-politics and the Spectre of Incest - Vikki Bell Sexuality and/in the FamilyThe Birth of Identity Politics in the 1960s - Eli Zaretsky Psychoanalysis and the Public/Private DivisionThe Modern Error - Eugene Halton Or, the Unbearable Enlightenment of Being