X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Manfred Steger


Dimensions of globalization

Manfred Steger, professor of Global Studies and research leader in the Global Cities Institute at RMIT University, compares the current study of globalization to the ancient Buddhist parable of blind scholars and their first encounter with an elephant.

Engaged theory

A second lineage of engaged theory has been developed by researchers who began their association through the Global Cities Institute, scholars such as Manfred Steger, Paul James and Damian Grenfell, drawing upon a range of writers from Pierre Bourdieu to Benedict Anderson and Charles Taylor.

Manfred Steger

As of 2013, Steger is a member of the editorial board of the American Political Science Review, the research journal of the American Political Science Association.



see also