Globalization a basic text
Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies. Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in globali...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, ; Malden, Massachusetts :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
2015.
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| Edición: | Second edition |
| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009849113806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Globalization: A Basic Text; Copyright; Contents; About the Website; List of Figures; Preface; Chapter 1 Globalization I: Liquids, Flows, and Structures; Some of the Basics; From Solids to Liquids (to Gases); Solids; Liquids and gases; Flows; Types of flows; Heavy, Light, Weightless; Heavy Structures That Expedite Flows; Heavy Structures As Barriers to Flows; Subtler Structural Barriers; On the Increasing Ubiquity of Global Flows and Structures; Thinking about Global Flows and Structures; Chapter Summary; Discussion Questions; Additional Readings; Notes
- Chapter 2 Globalization II: Some Basic Issues, Debates, and ControversiesIs There Such a Thing As Globalization?; Is It Globalization or Transnationalization?; If There Is Such a Thing As Globalization, When Did It Begin?; Hardwired; Cycles; Phases; Events; Broader, more recent changes; Globalization or Globalizations?; Economic; Political; Cultural; Religion; Science; Health and medicine; Sport; Education; What Drives Globalization?; Does Globalization Hop Rather Than Flow?; If There Is Such a Thing As Globalization, Is It Inexorable?; Does Globaphilia or Globaphobia Have the Upper Hand?
- GlobaphiliaGlobaphobia; Finding a middle ground; What, If Anything, Can Be Done about Globalization?; Nothing!; Everything!; Necessary actions are already underway; More, perhaps much more, needs to be done; Chapter Summary; Discussion Questions; Additional Readings; Notes; Chapter 3 Globalization and Related Processes: Imperialism, Colonialism, Development, Westernization, Easternization, and Americanization; Imperialism; The new imperialism; Colonialism; Postcolonialism; Development; Westernization; Easternization; Americanization
- A Broader and Deeper View of the Americanization of Consumer CultureMinimizing the Importance of Americanization; Anti-Americanism; Comparisons with Globalization; The Era of the "Posts"; Chapter Summary; Discussion Questions; Additional Readings; Notes; Chapter 4 Neoliberalism: Roots, Principles, Criticisms, and Neo-Marxian Alternatives; The Past, Present, and Future of Neoliberalism; Neoliberalism: An Exemplary Statement and the Basic Principles; Popular Neoliberal "Theory": The Case of Thomas Friedman; The Lexus and the Olive Tree; The World is Flat; Critiquing Neoliberalism
- The early thinking of Karl PolanyiContemporary criticisms of neoliberalism; Neoliberalism as Exception; Neoliberalism: The Case of Israel; The End of History; The Death of Neoliberalism?; Neo-Marxian Theoretical Alternatives to Neoliberalism; Transnational capitalism; Empire; Chapter Summary; Discussion Questions; Additional Readings; Notes; Chapter 5 Global Political Structures and Processes; On Political Processes and Flows; The Nation-State; Threats to the nation-state; In Defense of the Nation-State; "Imagined Community"; Changes in Global Nation-State Relations
- Other Global Political Developments and Structures
