Manfred Steger


Manfred B. Steger is Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was also Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Globalism Research Centre at RMIT University in Australia until 2013.

Background

Steger was born in Austria and left there in 1986 to study in the United States. He earned a PhD in political theory and comparative politics at Rutgers University in 1995.
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.

Scholarship

Steger's research and teaching spans globalization, ideology, and non-violence.
He won the 2003 Michael Harrington Award with his study on Globalism: The New Market Ideology.
Worldcat lists none the less than sixteen of his works which achieved a global library presence of more than 300 global libraries..

Festschrift by Palgrave Macmillan

The international publisher Palgrave Macmillan published in 2019 a Festschrift on Steger's work. The book "Revisiting the Global Imaginary. Theories, Ideologies, Subjectivities: Essays in Honor of Manfred Steger
Editors: Chris Hudson, and Erin Wilson. Palgrave Macmillan say:
"Manfred B. Steger’s extensive body of work on globalization has made him one of the most influential scholars working in the field of global studies today. His conceptualization of the global imaginary is amongst the most significant developments in thinking about globalization of the last three decades. Revisiting the Global Imaginary pays tribute to Steger’s contribution to our intellectual history with essays on the evolution, ontological foundations and methodological approaches to the study of the global imaginary."

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