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Book SynopsisThis unique and engaging anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes.
- Introduces globalization through its basic concepts, rather than thematically;a distinctive approach that provides students with a better grasp of what social science has to offer on the topic
- Utilizes concepts from interdisciplinary sources, bringing together work from key figures across a number of fields -from Weber and Marx, to contemporary figures in the field, including Beck, Bauman, Castells, and Homi Bhabha
- Includes excerpts to illustrate ideas, all at an appropriate level of difficulty for an undergraduate audience
- Offers all of this in the dynamic context of major debates surrounding the basic concepts and the fundamental realities of globalization
- Designed so it can be used independently, or alongside Ritzer's Globalization: A Basic Textfor a complete student resource
Trade Review“With contributions from leading scholars across a variety of disciplines, these readings help clarify our knowledge and advance our understanding of globalization. This book fills an important gap by making available, in a single volume, a variety of interpretations of issues critical to the topic of globalization. It is a very good read.” (ID: International Dialogue, February 2012)
Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Book 1
1 Introduction to Globalization Debates 3
1 Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive or Feeble? A Critique of Five Key Debates in the Social Science Literature 4
Mauro F. Guillén
Part I Political Economy 19
2 Civilizations 21
2 The Clash of Civilizations? 23
Samuel P. Huntington
3 Global Utopias and Clashing Civilizations: Misunderstanding the Present 29
John Gray
4 Can Civilizations Clash? 34
Jack F. Matlock, Jr
5 History Ends, Worlds Collide 36
Chris Brown
6 If Not Civilizations, What? Paradigms of the Post-Cold War World 37
Samuel P. Huntington
3 Orientalism, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism 43
7 Orientalism: Introduction 47
Edward W. Said
8 Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse 54
Sadik Jalal al-‘Azm
9 Postcolonialism and Its Discontents 57
Ali Rattansi
10 Said’s Orientalism: A Vital Contribution Today 66
Peter Marcuse
4 Neoliberalism 72
11 Freedom versus Collectivism in Foreign Aid 75
William Easterly
12 The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time 86
Karl Polanyi
13 Freedom’s Just Another Word 101
David Harvey
14 Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism 111
Aihwa Ong
5 Structural Adjustment 117
15 Structural Adjustment in East and Southeast Asia: Lessons from Latin America 119
Jim Glassman and Pádraig Carmody
16 The Social Consequences of Structural Adjustment: Recent Evidence and Current Debates 127
Sarah Babb
17 The Human Rights Effects of World Bank Structural Adjustment, 1981–2000 138
M. Rodwan Abouharb and David L. Cingranelli
18 How International Monetary Fund and World Bank Policies Undermine Labor Power and Rights 146
Vincent Lloyd and Robert Weissman
19 Who Has Failed Africa?: IMF Measures or the African Leadership? 150
Gerald Scott
6 Nation-State 157
20 Sociology and the Nation-State in an Era of Shifting Boundaries 159
Donald N. Levine
21 The Westfailure System 161
Susan Strange
22 Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State 166
Linda Weiss
23 Globalization and the Resilience of State Power 175
Daniel Béland
24 Beyond Nation-State Paradigms: Globalization, Sociology, and the Challenge of Transnational Studies 179
William I. Robinson
7 Transnationalism 182
25 Transnational Practices 184
Leslie Sklair
26 Social Theory and Globalization: The Rise of a Transnational State 195
William I. Robinson
27 Revisiting the Question of the Transnational State: A Comment on William Robinson’s “Social Theory and Globalization” 198
Philip McMichael
8 World Systems 203
28 The Modern World-System: Theoretical Reprise 205
Immanuel Wallerstein
29 Competing Conceptions of Globalization 210
Leslie Sklair
9 Empire 214
30 Empire 217
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
31 The Global Coliseum: On Empire 226
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri interviewed by Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman
32 Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations 228
Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey
33 Africa: the Black Hole at the Middle of Empire? 234
David Moore
34 The New World Order (They Mean It) 240
Stanley Aronowitz
35 Adventures of the Multitude: Response of the Authors 241
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
10 Network Society and Informationalism 244
36 Toward a Sociology of the Network Society 246
Manuel Castells
37 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells 252
Peter Marcuse
11 World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism 260
38 The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited 263
Ulrich Beck
39 Risk, Globalisation and the State: A Critical Appraisal of Ulrich Beck and the World Risk Society Thesis 271
Darryl S. L. Jarvis
40 Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda 280
Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider
41 Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism 285
Craig Calhoun
12 McWorld and Jihad 288
42 Jihad vs McWorld 290
Benjamin R. Barber
43 Paris Is Burning: Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber 297
Fareed Zakaria
44 Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism 301
Bryan S. Turner
45 On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism 305
Benjamin R. Barber
Part II Culture 307
46 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms 309
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
13 Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization 319
47 The World in Creolisation 322
Ulf Hannerz
48 Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in Transnational Anthropology 324
Ulf Hannerz
49 Globalization as Hybridization 326
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
50 Glocalization: Time–Space and Homogeneity–Heterogeneity 334
Roland Robertson
14 Critiquing Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization 344
51 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition 347
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
52 The Global, the Local, and the Hybrid: A Native Ethnography of Glocalization 351
Marwan M. Kraidy
53 Globalization and Trinidad Carnival: Diaspora, Hybridity and Identity in Global Culture 356
Keith Nurse
54 Mapping the “Glocal” Village: The Political Limits of “Glocalization” 360
William H. Thornton
55 Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing 361
George Ritzer
56 Dialectics of Something and Nothing: Critical Reflections on Ritzer’s Globalization Analysis 372
Douglas Kellner
15 McDonaldization 380
57 An Introduction to McDonaldization 383
George Ritzer
58 McDonaldization and the Global Culture of Consumption 389
Malcolm Waters
59 The McDonald’s Mosaic: Glocalization and Diversity 393
Bryan S. Turner
60 Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia 396
James L. Watson
61 Global Implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization 399
Alan Bryman
62 Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local – McDonald’s in Israel 402
Uri Ram
16 World Culture 408
63 World Culture: Origins and Consequences 410
Frank J. Lechner and John Boli
64 Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology’s Institutionalism 421
Martha Finnemore
Sources and Credits 425
Index 429
