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Tue, 05/03/2024 - 06:00

Becoming attentive to the material and the structural has linked me much more to the kinds of themes Barry Buzan raises in Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras. Though in reading it I also became conscious that my inner cultural historian still has, and wants, a voice. Let me explain.

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Created
Tue, 27/02/2024 - 06:00

This is a story about institutional transition, and most importantly, about the institutional transition to a modern global society. Modernity, for Barry Buzan in Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras, is not the period that was established sometime between the early modern and nineteenth century period in Europe, or as a ‘quick jump early in the nineteenth’.

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