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An introduction to the issues surrounding the complex and controversial realities of today's interconnected world, the revised sixth edition Since its initial publication , The Globalization Reader has been lauded for its comprehensive coverage of the issues surrounding globalization. Now in its sixth edition, the Reader has been thoroughly revised and updated and continues to review the most important global trends.
Including readings by a variety of authors, the text offers a wide-ranging and authoritative introduction to the political, economic, cultural, and experiential aspects of globalization. The updated sixth edition presents the most accessible and comprehensive review of current debates and research. Contributions from scholars, activists, and organizations provide balanced viewpoints and expert coverage of the many aspects of globalization.
The Globalization Reader offers readings on an exciting range of new topics as well as retaining key globalization topics such as the experience of globalization, economic and political globalization, the role of media and religion in cultural globalization, women’s rights, environmentalism, global civil society, and the alternative globalization movement. This important resource: Covers the many complex dimensions of globalization Includes contributions from many of the most prominent globalization scholars Presents concise and informative introductions to each major topic Offers compelling discussion questions for each section Contains readings on a variety of new topics such as migration, medical tourism, state policy regarding abortion and same-sex sexual relations, the UN Global Compact, climate justice, and more Written for students in undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, political science, anthropology and geography, the revised sixth edition covers courses such as globalization, comparative political economy, international relations and similar topics.
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- Höfundur: Frank J. Lechner
- Útgáfa:6
- Útgáfudagur: 2019-11-19
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781119409953
- Print ISBN: 9781119409946
- ISBN 10: 1119409950
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Preface to the Sixth Edition
- General Introduction
- Note on Selections
- Part I: Debating Globalization
- Introduction
- 1 The Hidden Promise
- The Priority of Liberty
- The Open Society
- The Individual’s Prayer
- An Empire without End
- 2 How to Judge Globalism
- Global Interdependences and Movements
- Are the Poor Getting Poorer?
- Global Justice and the Bargaining Problem
- Altering Global Arrangements
- Institutions and Inequality
- Fair Sharing of Global Opportunities
- 3 The Elusive Concept of Globalisation
- Globalisation: The Analytical Tool
- Globalisation: The Political Agenda
- Globalisation as Humanitarian Concern
- The Moral Challenge
- 4 The Clash of Civilizations?
- The Next Pattern of Conflict
- Why Civilizations Will Clash
- The Fault Lines between Civilizations
- The West versus the Rest
- 5 The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015
- Overview
- Unprecedented Efforts Have Resulted in Profound Achievements
- Despite Many Successes, the Poorest and Most Vulnerable People Are Being Left Behind
- The Successes of the MDG Agenda Prove that Global Action Works. It Is the Only Path to Ensure that the New Development Agenda Leaves No One Behind
- Part I Questions
- Introduction
- World‐System Theory and Related Perspectives
- World Polity Theory
- World Culture Theory
- 6 The Modern World‐System as a Capitalist World‐Economy
- 7 Sociology of the Global System
- The Conceptual Space for Transnational Practices (TNP)
- Economic Transnational Practices
- The Transnational Capitalist Class
- Labour and the Transnational Capitalist Class
- Culture‐Ideology Transnational Practices
- The Culture‐Ideology of Consumerism
- The Theory of the Global System: A Summary
- 8 A Brief History of Neoliberalism
- Introduction
- The Moving Map of Neoliberalization
- 9 World Society and the Nation‐State
- Explanatory Models
- Isomorphism and Isomorphic Change
- Processes of World Society’s Impact on Nation‐States
- Conclusion
- 10 Globalization as a Problem
- The Crystallization of a Concept and a Problem
- Coming to Terms with the World as a Whole
- Globalization and the Search for Fundamentals
- Universalism and Particularism Globalized
- 11 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
- Part II Questions
- Introduction
- 12 Waves in the History of Globalization
- The First Wave of Globalization: Jamaica
- Some Patterns in the First Wave
- The Second Wave of Globalization: North Dakota
- Some Patterns in the Second Wave
- 13 McDonald’s in Hong Kong
- Transnationalism and the Fast Food Industry
- Mental Categories: Snack versus Meal
- From Exotic to Ordinary: McDonald’s Becomes Local
- Sanitation and the Invention of Cleanliness
- What’s in a Smile? Friendliness and Public Service
- Consumer Discipline?
- Hovering and the Napkin Wars
- Children as Consumers
- Ronald McDonald and the Invention of Birthday Parties
- Conclusions: Whose Culture Is It?
- 14 The Transnational Villagers
- The MDC’s Accomplishments
- 15 Virtual Migration
- Spatial Integration
- Temporal Integration: Follow the Sun
- Globally Yours: Reconfiguring the Lifeworld
- 16 Fear and Money in Dubai
- Fantasy Levitated
- Gigantism
- War Zone
- 17 Outpatients
- Orbán’s Dentist
- 18 An Anthropology of Structural Violence
- 19 Crazy Like Us
- Junk Science and First World Medicine
- The Mega‐Marketing of Depression
- Early Adopters Have Second Thoughts
- Part III Questions
- Introduction
- 20 China Makes, the World Takes
- 21 Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies
- Trends in the US Athletic Shoe Market
- Nike Corporation: Competition, Upgrading, and Innovationin a Commodity Chain
- Conclusions
- 22 The Sticky SuperpowerThe Economist
- Power through Neglect
- 23 Global Income Inequality by the Numbers: In History and Now
- 24 The Bottom Billion
- Traps, and the Countries Caught in Them
- The Role of Growth in Development
- 25 The Global Financial Crisis and Its Effects
- A Brief Chronology
- Underlying Causes
- The Initial Economic Impact
- Policy Responses
- 26 The Twin Excesses – Financialization and Globalization – Caused the Crash
- 27 Globalism’s Discontents
- Beneficial Globalization
- The Darker Side of Globalization
- Lessons of Crisis
- The Costs of Volatility
- The Governance of Globalization
- Governance through Ideology
- An Unfair Trade Agenda
- Global Social Justice
- Part IV Questions
- Introduction
- 28 The Declining Authority of States
- The Neglected Factor – Technology
- The Second Neglect – Finance
- Politics, Power and Legitimacy
- 29 Global Organized Crime
- The New Criminality
- Criminalization and the Rise of the State as a Courtesan
- 30 Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
- Sources of Tension
- The Role of National Governments
- 31 The Individualization of Society and the Liberalization of State Policies on Same‐Sex Sexual Relations, 1984–1995
- Changes in State Policies on Homosexual Relations
- Two Broader Contexts
- Overall Cultural Individualism
- Individualized Gender Equality
- Linkages to World Society
- 32 Abortion Liberalization in World Society, 1960–2009
- Introduction
- Background
- Results
- Discussion and Conclusion
- Part V Questions
- Introduction
- 33 The International Monetary Fund
- The Effects of IMF Programs on the Balance of Payments
- Economic Growth
- Income Distribution and Social Spending
- Conclusion
- 34 ISO and the Infrastructure for a Global Market
- The ISO Network and Its Voluntary Consensus Process: The Actors and Why They Are Involved
- A Standard and Its Consequences
- Setting the Standard
- 35 Global Health Governance
- Introduction
- 36 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grant‐Making Programme for Global Health
- Introduction
- The Gates Foundation’s Grant‐Making Programme
- 37 IMPACT
- The Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact
- Taking Root: The Global Spread of Sustainability
- Into the Fold: Expanding the Scope of Corporate Sustainability
- Part VI Questions
- Introduction
- 38 NGOs and Climate Crisis
- Mixed Bunch
- Trends in Climate Work
- Fragmentation and Diverging Interests
- Common Denominator: Two Degrees
- First Line of Conflict: Burden Sharing between North and South
- Second Line of Conflict: Market Mechanisms vs. System Change
- Local vs. International
- Conclusion
- 39 The Evolution of Debates over Female Genital Cutting
- The Health Compromise
- Women’s Rights as Human Rights
- 40 Women’s Human Rights and the Muslim Question
- Human Rights Discourse in Practice: The One Million Signatures Campaign
- 41 World Culture in the World Polity
- An Historical Overview of the INGO Population
- World Development, INGOs, and Capitalistand Interstate Systems
- INGOs as Enactors and Carriers of World Culture
- Conclusion
- 42 Closing the Corruption Casino
- 43 Trading Diamonds Responsibly
- Global CSR Norms: Opportunities for the Conflict Diamonds Campaign
- Translating Norms into Practice: The Kimberley Process
- 44 Poverty Capital
- Fall from Grace?
- Homegrown Institutions
- POVERTY TRUTHS
- The Conditions of Protection
- Part VII Questions
- Introduction
- 45 Cultural Imperialism
- “Watching Dallas”: The Imperialist Text and Audience Research
- Multinational Capitalism and Cultural Homogenisation
- 46 Mapping Global Media Flow and Contra‐Flow
- Localisation of Global Americana
- ‘Subaltern’ Contra‐Flows: Anti‐Hegemonic or Pro‐Americana?
- Transnational Telenovelas
- Hybridity as Hegemony
- 47 Hybridity and the Rise of Korean Popular Culture in Asia
- What is the Korean Wave?
- Korean Media Liberalization and Development
- 48 Landing of the Wave
- Brazil
- Peru
- Research Design and Results
- 49 Watching Big Brother at Work
- The Rise of Popular Factual Entertainment
- Making it Aussie: Indigenising an International Format
- Producing Big Brother
- Developing a Fan Base
- Big Brother Online
- 50 Bollywood versus Hollywood
- Introduction
- Bollywood and Third Cinema
- ‘Hollywood Raises Hell in Bollywood’
- Conclusion
- 51 Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care
- Why Clustering in Hollywood?
- The Drive towards Clustering
- American Cultural Imperialism?
- Part VIII Questions
- Introduction
- 52 Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims
- The Islamists’ Roots in Secular Education
- Modern Goals, Modern Methods
- The Radical Minority
- 53 Globalised Islam
- 54 The Christian Revolution
- The Rise of Christendom
- 55 American Evangelicals
- Introduction
- American Evangelicalism: Vanguard of a Transnational Religious Movement
- The Language of the Market
- The Language of Multiculturalism
- Conclusion: An Unintended Gospel of Modernity
- 56 Religious Rejections of Globalization
- Religion and Antiglobalization Activism: The Case of the Debt Movement
- Religion and Antiglobalization Discourse
- Religion and Alternative Visions of Globalization
- 57 The Decontexualization of Asian Religious Practices in the Context of Globalization
- Flows of Asian Global Religious Practices
- The Modern Fascination with the Self
- Decontextualizing Asian Global Religious Practices
- Psychology and Meditation
- Part IX Questions
- Introduction
- 58 Moral Choices and Global Desires
- Meeting Sumitra
- Mapping a Family
- Women in the Village
- Articulating Womanhood
- Synthesizing an Identity
- Freedom and Possibility: Banishing the Ban Manche
- Globalization, Conflict and Self‐Definition
- 59 Global/Indian
- Navigating Cultural Terrain at Work: Corporate Perspectives
- 60 Strategic Inauthenticity
- Youssou N’Dour: “A Modern Griot”
- Whose Authenticity?
- 61 Orange Nation
- The Aura of 1974
- 62 Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture
- The Cosmopolitan Perspective: Orientation and Competence
- Cosmopolitanism and the Varieties of Mobility
- The Cosmopolitan at Home
- Conclusion: The Dependence of Cosmopolitans on Locals,and their Shared Interests
- 63 Cosmopolitanism & Humanism
- Part X Questions
- Introduction
- 64 Greenpeace and Political Globalism
- Transnational Organizational Structure
- Greenpeace’s Politics
- Political Strategies
- 65 Environmental Advocacy Networks
- The Campaign against Deforestation in Sarawak
- Conclusions
- 66 Toward Democratic Governance for Sustainable Development
- The Rise of Domestic Opposition
- The Building of Transnational Linkages
- Taking on the World Bank
- The Genesis of the World Commission on Dams
- 67 Ozone Depletion
- 68 Movements for Climate Justice in the US and Worldwide
- Origins of Climate Justice
- The Case for Climate Justice
- Challenging Fossil Fuels and the False Solutions
- To the Summits and Beyond
- Into the Future
- 69 Speech of the IPCC Chairman, Rajendra K. Pachauri, at the Opening Session of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
- Part XI Questions
- Introduction
- 70 Counterhegemonic Globalization
- The New Organizational Foundations of Counterhegemonic Globalization
- Labor as a Global Social Movement
- 71 The Global Justice Movement
- A Brief History of the Global Justice Movement
- A Movement Against the Neoliberal Ideology
- Three Major Tendencies
- 72 The Twelve Assumptions of an Alter‐Globalisation Strategy
- 73 The Global South
- 74 Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization
- The Three Waves of Globalization
- The Community, the State, and the Corporation
- Globalization as Environmental Apartheid
- Northern Dumping in the South
- People’s Movements for the Protection of Biodiversity and Collective Rights
- The Movement for Declaration of Community Rights to Biodiversity: The Case of Pattuvam Panchayat
- Navdanya: Seeds of Freedom
- Conclusion
- 75 Porto Alegre Call for Mobilization
- 76 When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism
- Chapter One: The Rise of the Globalists
- Chapter Two: Globalists and Nationalists Grow Further Apart on Immigration
- Chapter Three: Muslim Immigration Triggers the Authoritarian Alarm
- Chapter Four: What Now?
- 77 The Globalization of Rage
- Part XII Questions
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