Beschreibung
The global financial and economic crisis started in 2008 with the collapse
of Lehman Brothers. Four years later, despite massive national and
international countermeasures, it is still not over. This volume examines
the considerable economic, social and political consequences of the
present global crisis for world society. In particular, the 16
contributions focus on three central issues: Firstly, crisis impacts on
world society structures and evolutionary dynamics, secondly, crisis
perceptions and public discourses with their social and political
consequences and, thirdly, experience of the global crisis at local and
regional levels, as well as the responses to it.
Christian Suter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel
and President of the World Society Foundation, Zurich/Neuchâtel,
Switzerland.
Mark Herkenrath is Associate Lecturer of Sociology at the University of
Zurich and board member of the World Society Foundation, Zurich/Neuchâtel,
Switzerland.
