Between Jihad and McWorld: Voices of Social Justice

A conference of Social Justice
with Benjamin Barber

Friday September 29, 2006
Kent State University Ashtabula, Ohio

In the international best seller, JIHAD vs. McWORLD, Benjamin Barber describes a contemporary global order in which humanity increasingly finds itself wedged between two ends of a tightening vice: The hegemony of a homogenizing global capitalist empire of mass consumption, infotainment and profits- McWorld and Jihadism- the blood politics of identity, nationalism, tribalism and fragmentation. The squeezing is on. Civil society –real community, democracy and justice stand between the forces of Jihad and McWorld- as do we all.

For further information contact Carol Murray at
440-964-4257 or cmurray@kent.edu

Sponsored by KSUA Social Justice Conference Committee 
and KSUA Diversity Advisory Council

 

 
 

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