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Book SynopsisThis companion features 35 original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations.
Trade Review“The stimulating essays in this remarkably comprehensive collection cover important global trends, present intriguing theoretical perspectives, and take sides in current debates on globalization. Many illustrate what Ritzer calls the “globophobic” thrust in recent work on the subject. This volume is required reading for serious students of globalization.”
Frank J. Lechner, Emory University "This is a thoroughly collated, unique combination of encyclopaedic surveys of the major controversies that split/unite the on-going debate on the origins, dynamics and the prospects of globalization, with illuminating case studies exploring the diverse impacts of globalizing pressures on contemporary life in all parts of the planet. An exceptionally useful reference, gathering under one cover texts otherwise difficult to access and seldom considered together."
Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds and University of Warsaw
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction
George Ritzer 1
PART I: INTRODUCTION 15
Introduction to Part I
George Ritzer 16
1. Globalization in Hard Times: Contention in the Academy and Beyond
Anthony McGrew 29
2. What Is Globalization?
Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White 54
3. The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal Globalization
Robert J. Antonio 67
4. Globalization: The Major Players
George M. Thomas 84
5. Globalization Today
John Boli and Velina Petrova 103
6. Theories of Globalization
William I. Robinson 125
7. Studying Globalization: Methodological Issues
Salvatore Babones 144
8. Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Theory for the Twenty-fi rst Century
Ulrich Beck 162
PART II: THE MAJOR DOMAINS 177
Introduction to Part II
George Ritzer 178
9. The End of Globalization? The Implications of Migration for State, Society and Economy
Subhrajit Guhathakurta, David Jacobson and Nicholas C. DelSordi 201
10. Globalization and the Agrarian World
Philip McMichael 216
11. Globalization and the Environment
Steve Yearley 239
12. Cities and Globalization
Michael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma 254
13. The Sociology of Global Organizations
Stewart Clegg and Chris Carter 272
14. Economic Globalization: Corporations
Peter Dicken 291
15. Outsourcing: Globalization and Beyond
George Ritzer and Craig Lair 307
16. Globalization and Consumer Culture
Douglas J. Goodman 330
17. Cultural Globalization
John Tomlinson 352
18. Globalization and Ideology
Manfred B. Steger 367
19. Media and Globalization
Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce 383
20. Globalization and Information and Communications Technologies: The Case of War
Howard Tumber and Frank Webster 396
21. Political Globalization
Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford 414
22. Globalization and Public Policy
Tim Blackman 429
23. Religion and Globalization
Peter Beyer 444
24. Globalization and Higher Education
Peter Manicas 461
25. Sport and Globalization
David L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger 478
26. The Fate of the Local
Melissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada Jr 498
27. Public Health in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities
Farnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach 516
PART III: MAJOR ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS 539
Introduction to Part III
George Ritzer 540
28. Globalization and Global Inequalities: Recent Trends
Glenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling 549
29. World Inequality in the Twenty-fi rst Century: Patterns and Tendencies
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran 565
30. Globalization and Corruption
Carolyn Warner 593
31. Globalization and Sexuality
Kathryn Farr 610
32. War in the Era of Economic Globalization
Gerald Schneider 630
33. Globalization and International Terrorism
Gus Martin 644
34. Resisting Globalization
Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner 662
35. The Futures of Globalization
Bryan S. Turner 675
Index 693
