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Book SynopsisThe fate of globalization in the 21st century hangs in the balance. Although recent data show that most global integration has been on the rebound after the 2008-9 global financial meltdown and the COVID-19 pandemic, public sentiments about globalization have soured. The neoliberal glorification of globalization as beneficial market integration is running out of steam, while national-populist visions of “deglobalization” exert significant mass appeal. Today’s ostensible globalization backlash scenario seems to be confirmed by soaring inflation rates, global supply chain disruptions, accelerating climate change and ecological deterioration, lagging transitions to greener forms of energy, escalating economic inequality, and rising geopolitical competition among the Great Powers, especially the United States-China rivalry and the protracted Russian-Ukrainian war. On the flipside, however, such grim scenarios reinforce the fact that most of today’s problems are global in nature. This book provides an accessible assessment of 21st-century globalization that draws on global theory and history to engage pressing issues such as digitization, ideological polarization, higher education, demographics, human development, and the environment. Assembling such a big picture of globalization in this young century supports the practical efforts of setting the globe on a more equitable and sustainable path.
Table of ContentsPreface & Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
PART I: HISTORIES & THEORIES
- A Genealogy of “Globalization”
The Four Meaning Branches of the Family Tree Called “Globalization”
The Neoliberal Revolution and the “Globalization of Markets”
Concluding Reflections on the Meaning of “Globalization” in this Book
- Four Ages of Globalization
Periodizing Globalization: Perilous Pitfalls
Periodizing Globalization: Alternative Models
The Age of the Embodied Globalization (10000BCE–3000BCE)
The Age of Institutional Globalization (3000BCE – 1600CE)
The Age of Objectified Globalization (1600–1914)
The Age of Disembodied Globalization (1914–2000)
Concluding Reflections
- A Critical Appraisal of Globalization Theory
Globalization Theory: The Basics
The Dominant Framework of Globalization Theory
An Alternative Framework of Globalization Theory
The Generalizing Mode
The Domain Mode
The Complexity Mode
Concluding Remarks
PART II: IDEOLOGIES & MOVEMENTS
- Contending Globalisms
Political Ideologies and Social Imaginaries
Ideological Struggles of the 21st Century
Concluding Reflections
- The Challenge of Antiglobalist Populism
The Significance of Global Crises
What Is National-Populism?
Mapping Trump’s Antiglobalist Populism
The Populist Paradox
Concluding Reflections of the Future of Antiglobalist Populism
PART III: ISSUES & PROBLEMS
- The Rise of Global Studies in Higher Education
The Institutional Evolution of Global Studies
The Global Studies Story at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)
The First Pillar of Global Studies: Globalization
The Second Pillar of Global Studies: Transdisciplinarity
The Third Pillar of Global Studies: Space & Time
The Fourth Pillar of Global Studies: Critical Thinking
Concluding Remarks: Critiques of Global Studies
- Digital Globalization in the COVID-19 Era
Four Social Formations of Globalization
Digitization and Disjunctive Globalization
The Production of the Unhappy Consciousness
Concluding Reflections on the Impact of COVID-19
- Globalization in 2040: Environment, Population, Development
Environment
Population
Development
Concluding Reflections
Notes
Index
About the Author
