The Globalization Reader

Höfundur Frank J. Lechner

Útgefandi Wiley Global Research (STMS)

Snið ePub

Print ISBN 9781119409946

Útgáfa 6

Útgáfuár 2020

6.290 kr.

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Efnisyfirlit

  • Cover
  • Preface to the Sixth Edition
  • General Introduction
  • Note on Selections
  • Part I: Debating Globalization
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Hidden Promise
  • The Priority of Liberty
  • The Open Society
  • The Individual’s Prayer
  • An Empire without End
  • 2 How to Judge Globalism
  • Global Interdependences and Movements
  • Are the Poor Getting Poorer?
  • Global Justice and the Bargaining Problem
  • Altering Global Arrangements
  • Institutions and Inequality
  • Fair Sharing of Global Opportunities
  • 3 The Elusive Concept of Globalisation
  • Globalisation: The Analytical Tool
  • Globalisation: The Political Agenda
  • Globalisation as Humanitarian Concern
  • The Moral Challenge
  • 4 The Clash of Civilizations?
  • The Next Pattern of Conflict
  • Why Civilizations Will Clash
  • The Fault Lines between Civilizations
  • The West versus the Rest
  • 5 The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015
  • Overview
  • Unprecedented Efforts Have Resulted in Profound Achievements
  • Despite Many Successes, the Poorest and Most Vulnerable People Are Being Left Behind
  • The Successes of the MDG Agenda Prove that Global Action Works. It Is the Only Path to Ensure that the New Development Agenda Leaves No One Behind
  • Part I Questions
  • Part II: Explaining Globalization
  • Introduction
  • World‐System Theory and Related Perspectives
  • World Polity Theory
  • World Culture Theory
  • 6 The Modern World‐System as a Capitalist World‐Economy
  • 7 Sociology of the Global System
  • The Conceptual Space for Transnational Practices (TNP)
  • Economic Transnational Practices
  • The Transnational Capitalist Class
  • Labour and the Transnational Capitalist Class
  • Culture‐Ideology Transnational Practices
  • The Culture‐Ideology of Consumerism
  • The Theory of the Global System: A Summary
  • 8 A Brief History of Neoliberalism
  • Introduction
  • The Moving Map of Neoliberalization
  • 9 World Society and the Nation‐State
  • Explanatory Models
  • Isomorphism and Isomorphic Change
  • Processes of World Society’s Impact on Nation‐States
  • Conclusion
  • 10 Globalization as a Problem
  • The Crystallization of a Concept and a Problem
  • Coming to Terms with the World as a Whole
  • Globalization and the Search for Fundamentals
  • Universalism and Particularism Globalized
  • 11 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
  • Part II Questions
  • Part III: Experiencing Globalization
  • Introduction
  • 12 Waves in the History of Globalization
  • The First Wave of Globalization: Jamaica
  • Some Patterns in the First Wave
  • The Second Wave of Globalization: North Dakota
  • Some Patterns in the Second Wave
  • 13 McDonald’s in Hong Kong
  • Transnationalism and the Fast Food Industry
  • Mental Categories: Snack versus Meal
  • From Exotic to Ordinary: McDonald’s Becomes Local
  • Sanitation and the Invention of Cleanliness
  • What’s in a Smile? Friendliness and Public Service
  • Consumer Discipline?
  • Hovering and the Napkin Wars
  • Children as Consumers
  • Ronald McDonald and the Invention of Birthday Parties
  • Conclusions: Whose Culture Is It?
  • 14 The Transnational Villagers
  • The MDC’s Accomplishments
  • 15 Virtual Migration
  • Spatial Integration
  • Temporal Integration: Follow the Sun
  • Globally Yours: Reconfiguring the Lifeworld
  • 16 Fear and Money in Dubai
  • Fantasy Levitated
  • Gigantism
  • War Zone
  • 17 Outpatients
  • Orbán’s Dentist
  • 18 An Anthropology of Structural Violence
  • 19 Crazy Like Us
  • Junk Science and First World Medicine
  • The Mega‐Marketing of Depression
  • Early Adopters Have Second Thoughts
  • Part III Questions
  • Part IV: Globalization and the World Economy
  • Introduction
  • 20 China Makes, the World Takes
  • 21 Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies
  • Trends in the US Athletic Shoe Market
  • Nike Corporation: Competition, Upgrading, and Innovationin a Commodity Chain
  • Conclusions
  • 22 The Sticky SuperpowerThe Economist
  • Power through Neglect
  • 23 Global Income Inequality by the Numbers: In History and Now
  • 24 The Bottom Billion
  • Traps, and the Countries Caught in Them
  • The Role of Growth in Development
  • 25 The Global Financial Crisis and Its Effects
  • A Brief Chronology
  • Underlying Causes
  • The Initial Economic Impact
  • Policy Responses
  • 26 The Twin Excesses – Financialization and Globalization – Caused the Crash
  • 27 Globalism’s Discontents
  • Beneficial Globalization
  • The Darker Side of Globalization
  • Lessons of Crisis
  • The Costs of Volatility
  • The Governance of Globalization
  • Governance through Ideology
  • An Unfair Trade Agenda
  • Global Social Justice
  • Part IV Questions
  • Part V: Globalization and the Nation‐State
  • Introduction
  • 28 The Declining Authority of States
  • The Neglected Factor – Technology
  • The Second Neglect – Finance
  • Politics, Power and Legitimacy
  • 29 Global Organized Crime
  • The New Criminality
  • Criminalization and the Rise of the State as a Courtesan
  • 30 Has Globalization Gone Too Far?
  • Sources of Tension
  • The Role of National Governments
  • 31 The Individualization of Society and the Liberalization of State Policies on Same‐Sex Sexual Relations, 1984–1995
  • Changes in State Policies on Homosexual Relations
  • Two Broader Contexts
  • Overall Cultural Individualism
  • Individualized Gender Equality
  • Linkages to World Society
  • 32 Abortion Liberalization in World Society, 1960–2009
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Results
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • Part V Questions
  • Part VI: Global Governance
  • Introduction
  • 33 The International Monetary Fund
  • The Effects of IMF Programs on the Balance of Payments
  • Economic Growth
  • Income Distribution and Social Spending
  • Conclusion
  • 34 ISO and the Infrastructure for a Global Market
  • The ISO Network and Its Voluntary Consensus Process: The Actors and Why They Are Involved
  • A Standard and Its Consequences
  • Setting the Standard
  • 35 Global Health Governance
  • Introduction
  • 36 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grant‐Making Programme for Global Health
  • Introduction
  • The Gates Foundation’s Grant‐Making Programme
  • 37 IMPACT
  • The Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact
  • Taking Root: The Global Spread of Sustainability
  • Into the Fold: Expanding the Scope of Corporate Sustainability
  • Part VI Questions
  • Part VII: Globalization, INGOs, and Civil Society
  • Introduction
  • 38 NGOs and Climate Crisis
  • Mixed Bunch
  • Trends in Climate Work
  • Fragmentation and Diverging Interests
  • Common Denominator: Two Degrees
  • First Line of Conflict: Burden Sharing between North and South
  • Second Line of Conflict: Market Mechanisms vs. System Change
  • Local vs. International
  • Conclusion
  • 39 The Evolution of Debates over Female Genital Cutting
  • The Health Compromise
  • Women’s Rights as Human Rights
  • 40 Women’s Human Rights and the Muslim Question
  • Human Rights Discourse in Practice: The One Million Signatures Campaign
  • 41 World Culture in the World Polity
  • An Historical Overview of the INGO Population
  • World Development, INGOs, and Capitalistand Interstate Systems
  • INGOs as Enactors and Carriers of World Culture
  • Conclusion
  • 42 Closing the Corruption Casino
  • 43 Trading Diamonds Responsibly
  • Global CSR Norms: Opportunities for the Conflict Diamonds Campaign
  • Translating Norms into Practice: The Kimberley Process
  • 44 Poverty Capital
  • Fall from Grace?
  • Homegrown Institutions
  • POVERTY TRUTHS
  • The Conditions of Protection
  • Part VII Questions
  • Part VIII: Globalization and Media
  • Introduction
  • 45 Cultural Imperialism
  • “Watching Dallas”: The Imperialist Text and Audience Research
  • Multinational Capitalism and Cultural Homogenisation
  • 46 Mapping Global Media Flow and Contra‐Flow
  • Localisation of Global Americana
  • ‘Subaltern’ Contra‐Flows: Anti‐Hegemonic or Pro‐Americana?
  • Transnational Telenovelas
  • Hybridity as Hegemony
  • 47 Hybridity and the Rise of Korean Popular Culture in Asia
  • What is the Korean Wave?
  • Korean Media Liberalization and Development
  • 48 Landing of the Wave
  • Brazil
  • Peru
  • Research Design and Results
  • 49 Watching Big Brother at Work
  • The Rise of Popular Factual Entertainment
  • Making it Aussie: Indigenising an International Format
  • Producing Big Brother
  • Developing a Fan Base
  • Big Brother Online
  • 50 Bollywood versus Hollywood
  • Introduction
  • Bollywood and Third Cinema
  • ‘Hollywood Raises Hell in Bollywood’
  • Conclusion
  • 51 Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care
  • Why Clustering in Hollywood?
  • The Drive towards Clustering
  • American Cultural Imperialism?
  • Part VIII Questions
  • Part IX: Globalization and Religion
  • Introduction
  • 52 Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims
  • The Islamists’ Roots in Secular Education
  • Modern Goals, Modern Methods
  • The Radical Minority
  • 53 Globalised Islam
  • 54 The Christian Revolution
  • The Rise of Christendom
  • 55 American Evangelicals
  • Introduction
  • American Evangelicalism: Vanguard of a Transnational Religious Movement
  • The Language of the Market
  • The Language of Multiculturalism
  • Conclusion: An Unintended Gospel of Modernity
  • 56 Religious Rejections of Globalization
  • Religion and Antiglobalization Activism: The Case of the Debt Movement
  • Religion and Antiglobalization Discourse
  • Religion and Alternative Visions of Globalization
  • 57 The Decontexualization of Asian Religious Practices in the Context of Globalization
  • Flows of Asian Global Religious Practices
  • The Modern Fascination with the Self
  • Decontextualizing Asian Global Religious Practices
  • Psychology and Meditation
  • Part IX Questions
  • Part X: Globalization and Identity
  • Introduction
  • 58 Moral Choices and Global Desires
  • Meeting Sumitra
  • Mapping a Family
  • Women in the Village
  • Articulating Womanhood
  • Synthesizing an Identity
  • Freedom and Possibility: Banishing the Ban Manche
  • Globalization, Conflict and Self‐Definition
  • 59 Global/Indian
  • Navigating Cultural Terrain at Work: Corporate Perspectives
  • 60 Strategic Inauthenticity
  • Youssou N’Dour: “A Modern Griot”
  • Whose Authenticity?
  • 61 Orange Nation
  • The Aura of 1974
  • 62 Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture
  • The Cosmopolitan Perspective: Orientation and Competence
  • Cosmopolitanism and the Varieties of Mobility
  • The Cosmopolitan at Home
  • Conclusion: The Dependence of Cosmopolitans on Locals,and their Shared Interests
  • 63 Cosmopolitanism & Humanism
  • Part X Questions
  • Part XI: Global Environmentalism
  • Introduction
  • 64 Greenpeace and Political Globalism
  • Transnational Organizational Structure
  • Greenpeace’s Politics
  • Political Strategies
  • 65 Environmental Advocacy Networks
  • The Campaign against Deforestation in Sarawak
  • Conclusions
  • 66 Toward Democratic Governance for Sustainable Development
  • The Rise of Domestic Opposition
  • The Building of Transnational Linkages
  • Taking on the World Bank
  • The Genesis of the World Commission on Dams
  • 67 Ozone Depletion
  • 68 Movements for Climate Justice in the US and Worldwide
  • Origins of Climate Justice
  • The Case for Climate Justice
  • Challenging Fossil Fuels and the False Solutions
  • To the Summits and Beyond
  • Into the Future
  • 69 Speech of the IPCC Chairman, Rajendra K. Pachauri, at the Opening Session of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
  • Part XI Questions
  • Part XII: Contesting Globalization: Alternatives and Opposition
  • Introduction
  • 70 Counterhegemonic Globalization
  • The New Organizational Foundations of Counterhegemonic Globalization
  • Labor as a Global Social Movement
  • 71 The Global Justice Movement
  • A Brief History of the Global Justice Movement
  • A Movement Against the Neoliberal Ideology
  • Three Major Tendencies
  • 72 The Twelve Assumptions of an Alter‐Globalisation Strategy
  • 73 The Global South
  • 74 Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization
  • The Three Waves of Globalization
  • The Community, the State, and the Corporation
  • Globalization as Environmental Apartheid
  • Northern Dumping in the South
  • People’s Movements for the Protection of Biodiversity and Collective Rights
  • The Movement for Declaration of Community Rights to Biodiversity: The Case of Pattuvam Panchayat
  • Navdanya: Seeds of Freedom
  • Conclusion
  • 75 Porto Alegre Call for Mobilization
  • 76 When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism
  • Chapter One: The Rise of the Globalists
  • Chapter Two: Globalists and Nationalists Grow Further Apart on Immigration
  • Chapter Three: Muslim Immigration Triggers the Authoritarian Alarm
  • Chapter Four: What Now?
  • 77 The Globalization of Rage
  • Part XII Questions
  • Index
  • End User License Agreement
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