Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Globalization

The Key Concepts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 185mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780857857279
• ISBN-10: 0857857274
• Artikelnr.: 39712551

Autorenporträt

Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

PrefaceIntroduction: A Shrinking Planet1. DisembeddingGlobalization and
DistanceTowards a More Abstract WorldAbstract Time and TemperatureMoney as
a Means of CommunicationAbstract MusicPrinting and FactoriesNationalism as
a Template for GlobalizationOther Disembedding MechanismsDisembedded
FriendshipNeoliberal Economics and DisembeddingCritics of Disembedding2.
SpeedTime-space CompressionAccelerated ChangeFriedman's
"Flatteners"Acceleration in the MediaBourdieu's PessimismSimultaneitySome
Further Implications of AccelerationThe Unevenness of Speed3.
StandardizationSome Standards of a Global ModernitySome Contemporary Forms
of StandardizationObsolescenceBilingualism and StandardizationThe
Globalization of NothingMcWorld and Its DiscontentsMS WordThe Shipping
Container and StandardizationResistance to Standardization4.
ConnectionsCriticisms of Methodological NationalismThe Network
SocietyCommunication NetworksA Networked Global Economy?Globalization from
BelowGlobal Governance?TranslationRemittances and Cheap CallsSoccer and
GlobalizationDelinking, Chosen, and EnforcedA World of SlumsConnectedness
and Disjunctures5. MobilityTransnational MigrationTransnational
ConnectionsOutsourcing the Nation-state?The Growth of TourismThe Tourist
and the RefugeeLong-distance NationalismGendered MigrationNostalgia6.
MixingForms of MixingHybridity and CreolizationWorld MusicA Mixed Family in
MauritiusA Model7. RiskNatural and Manufactured Risks?Perceived Risk and
Real ConsequencesInvasive SpeciesClimate ChangeClimate Change and Global
DemocracyWavering Trust in Expert SystemsDealing with Global Risks
LocallyGlobalization and Wars on TerrorHuman Rights and Security8. Identity
PoliticsThe Politicized Concept of CultureIdentity Politics as a Response
to GlobalizationA Grammar of Identity PoliticsIndigenous
StrategiesReembedding in DiasporasTrust and Social CapitalNeonationalism
and Islamism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?Human Rights and Identity
Politics9. AlterglobalizationProtest MovementsThe Transnational Occupy
MovementAlterglobalizing Strategies in the SouthThe Slowness MovementFrom
the Arab Spring to the Snowden AffairAfterword: An Overheated
WorldBibliographyIndex

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PrefaceIntroduction: A Shrinking Planet1. DisembeddingGlobalization and DistanceTowards a More Abstract WorldAbstract Time and TemperatureMoney as a Means of CommunicationAbstract MusicPrinting and FactoriesNationalism as a Template for GlobalizationOther Disembedding MechanismsDisembedded FriendshipNeoliberal Economics and DisembeddingCritics of Disembedding2. SpeedTime-space CompressionAccelerated ChangeFriedman's "Flatteners"Acceleration in the MediaBourdieu's PessimismSimultaneitySome Further Implications of AccelerationThe Unevenness of Speed3. StandardizationSome Standards of a Global ModernitySome Contemporary Forms of StandardizationObsolescenceBilingualism and StandardizationThe Globalization of NothingMcWorld and Its DiscontentsMS WordThe Shipping Container and StandardizationResistance to Standardization4. ConnectionsCriticisms of Methodological NationalismThe Network SocietyCommunication NetworksA Networked Global Economy?Globalization from BelowGlobal Governance?TranslationRemittances and Cheap CallsSoccer and GlobalizationDelinking, Chosen, and EnforcedA World of SlumsConnectedness and Disjunctures5. MobilityTransnational MigrationTransnational ConnectionsOutsourcing the Nation-state?The Growth of TourismThe Tourist and the RefugeeLong-distance NationalismGendered MigrationNostalgia6. MixingForms of MixingHybridity and CreolizationWorld MusicA Mixed Family in MauritiusA Model7. RiskNatural and Manufactured Risks?Perceived Risk and Real ConsequencesInvasive SpeciesClimate ChangeClimate Change and Global DemocracyWavering Trust in Expert SystemsDealing with Global Risks LocallyGlobalization and Wars on TerrorHuman Rights and Security8. Identity PoliticsThe Politicized Concept of CultureIdentity Politics as a Response to GlobalizationA Grammar of Identity PoliticsIndigenous StrategiesReembedding in DiasporasTrust and Social CapitalNeonationalism and Islamism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?Human Rights and Identity Politics9. AlterglobalizationProtest MovementsThe Transnational Occupy MovementAlterglobalizing Strategies in the SouthThe Slowness MovementFrom the Arab Spring to the Snowden AffairAfterword: An Overheated WorldBibliographyIndex

Rezensionen

"This book does an excellent job of defining key concepts and terms in a clear, accessible and engaging way, without 'dumbing down'. The case studies are interesting, drawing on a variety of different cultures, countries and regions, to illustrate the concepts at hand. - Caroline A. Hartzell, Professor of Political Science, Gettysburg College, USA This is a great introduction to the study of globalization! To organize the text along key concepts is a brilliant idea as it helps students to understand the complex integration of various dimensions of globalization and pushes them to ask new and pertinent questions. - Sylva Frisk, University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies, Sweden Globalization: The Key Concepts cuts through the vast scholarship on globalization with powerful, simple ideas. Packed with thought-provoking examples, this book is accessible and intelligent, providing a good grounding in the fundamentals while introducing students to major scholarly debates. An excellent introduction to the field. - Emma Reisz, Lecturer in Asian History, History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast, UK Eriksen's book is perhaps the best one volume survey on globalization available. With a clear and conversational writing style, he weaves together theory, explanation and contemporary examples into an effective overview of the causes, consequences, concepts, and debates regarding globalization. - Mark Dailey, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Green Mountain College, USA"