Professor Scott Lash is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, as well as a a project leader in the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. He is a leading name within sociology and cultural studies, has written numerous books and articles over the last twenty years, and is currently the managing editor for the journal Theory, Culture and Society. Roland Robertson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His books include International Systems and the Modernization of Societies (with J P Nettl, 1968) The Sociological Interpretation of Religion (1970) Meaning and Change: Explorations in the Cultural Sociology of Modern Societies (1978), Religion and Global Order (co-edited with William R Garrett, 1991) and Talcott Parsons: Theorist of Modernity (co-edited with Bryan S Turner

`A timely contribution to current debates around globalization theory and an excellent introduction to this complex and contradictory field of study. Globalization theory has not simply supplanted postmodernism, but has rather refocused many of the issues raised by postmodernism towards a more serious reappraisal of the whole question of modernity itself′ - Habitat International

• Globalization, Modernity and the Spatialization of Social Theory - Mike Featherstone and Scott LashAn IntroductionGlocalization - Roland RobertsonTime-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 LukePower, 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 WagnerOn the History of a Modern FascinationTime, Space, Memory with Reference to Bachelard - Ann GameThe Soviet Individual - Oleg KharkhordinGenealogy of a Dissimulating AnimalBio-politics and the Spectre of Incest - Vikki BellSexuality and/in the FamilyThe Birth of Identity Politics in the 1960s - Eli ZaretskyPsychoanalysis and the Public/Private DivisionThe Modern Error - Eugene HaltonOr, the Unbearable Enlightenment of Being