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Globalization : The Key Concepts.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000189674
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Shrinking Planet -- 1 Disembedding -- Globalization and Distance -- Towards a More Abstract World -- Abstract Time and Temperature -- Money as a Means of Communication -- Abstract Music -- Printing and Factories -- Nationalism as a Template for Globalization -- Other Disembedding Mechanisms -- Disembedded Friendship -- Neoliberal Economics and Disembedding -- Critics of Disembedding -- 2 Speed -- Time-space Compression -- Accelerated Change -- Friedman's "Flatteners -- Acceleration in the Media -- Bourdieu's Pessimism -- Simultaneity -- Some Further Implications of Acceleration -- The Unevenness of Speed -- 3 Standardization -- Some Standards of a Global Modernity -- Some Contemporary Forms of Standardization -- Obsolescence -- Bilingualism and Standardization -- The Globalization of Nothing -- McWorld and Its Discontents -- MS Word -- The Shipping Container and Standardization -- Resistance to Standardization -- 4 Connections -- Criticism of Methodological Nationalism -- The Network Society -- Communication Networks -- A Networked Global Economy? -- Globalization from Below -- Global Governance? -- Translation -- Remittances and Cheap Calls -- Soccer and Globalization -- Delinking, Chosen, and Enforced -- A World of Slums -- Connectedness and Disjunctures -- 5 Mobility -- Transnational Migration -- Transnational Connections -- Outsourcing the Nation-state? -- The Growth of Tourism -- Perspectives on Tourism -- The Tourist and the Refugee -- Long-distance Nationalism -- Gendered Migration -- Nostalgia -- 6 Mixing -- Forms of Mixing -- Hybridity and Creolization -- World Music -- A Mixed Family in Mauritius -- A Model -- 7 Risk -- Natural and Manufactured Risks? -- Perceived Risk and Real Consequences -- Invasive Species -- Climate Change.
Climate Change and Global Democracy -- Wavering Trust in Expert Systems -- Dealing with Global Risks Locally -- Globalization and Wars on Terror -- Human Rights and Security -- 8 Identity Politics -- The Politicized Concept of Culture -- Identity Politics as a Response to Globalization -- A Grammar of Identity Politics -- Indigenous Strategies -- Reembedding in Diasporas -- Trust and Social Capital -- Neonationalism and Islamism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? -- Human Rights and Identity Politics -- 9 Alterglobalization -- Protest Movements -- The Transnational Occupy Movement -- Alterglobalizing Strategies in the South -- The Slowness Movement -- From the Arab Spring to the Snowden Affair -- Afterword: An Overheated World -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Shrinking Planet -- 1 Disembedding -- Globalization and Distance -- Towards a More Abstract World -- Abstract Time and Temperature -- Money as a Means of Communication -- Abstract Music -- Printing and Factories -- Nationalism as a Template for Globalization -- Other Disembedding Mechanisms -- Disembedded Friendship -- Neoliberal Economics and Disembedding -- Critics of Disembedding -- 2 Speed -- Time-space Compression -- Accelerated Change -- Friedman's "Flatteners -- Acceleration in the Media -- Bourdieu's Pessimism -- Simultaneity -- Some Further Implications of Acceleration -- The Unevenness of Speed -- 3 Standardization -- Some Standards of a Global Modernity -- Some Contemporary Forms of Standardization -- Obsolescence -- Bilingualism and Standardization -- The Globalization of Nothing -- McWorld and Its Discontents -- MS Word -- The Shipping Container and Standardization -- Resistance to Standardization -- 4 Connections -- Criticism of Methodological Nationalism -- The Network Society -- Communication Networks -- A Networked Global Economy? -- Globalization from Below -- Global Governance? -- Translation -- Remittances and Cheap Calls -- Soccer and Globalization -- Delinking, Chosen, and Enforced -- A World of Slums -- Connectedness and Disjunctures -- 5 Mobility -- Transnational Migration -- Transnational Connections -- Outsourcing the Nation-state? -- The Growth of Tourism -- Perspectives on Tourism -- The Tourist and the Refugee -- Long-distance Nationalism -- Gendered Migration -- Nostalgia -- 6 Mixing -- Forms of Mixing -- Hybridity and Creolization -- World Music -- A Mixed Family in Mauritius -- A Model -- 7 Risk -- Natural and Manufactured Risks? -- Perceived Risk and Real Consequences -- Invasive Species -- Climate Change.

Climate Change and Global Democracy -- Wavering Trust in Expert Systems -- Dealing with Global Risks Locally -- Globalization and Wars on Terror -- Human Rights and Security -- 8 Identity Politics -- The Politicized Concept of Culture -- Identity Politics as a Response to Globalization -- A Grammar of Identity Politics -- Indigenous Strategies -- Reembedding in Diasporas -- Trust and Social Capital -- Neonationalism and Islamism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? -- Human Rights and Identity Politics -- 9 Alterglobalization -- Protest Movements -- The Transnational Occupy Movement -- Alterglobalizing Strategies in the South -- The Slowness Movement -- From the Arab Spring to the Snowden Affair -- Afterword: An Overheated World -- Bibliography -- Index.

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics.

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