Global Nation?
Australia and the Politics of Globalisation

This is an accessible exploration of the meanings and implications of globalisation, first published in 1998.

John Wiseman (Author)

9780521597555, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 November 1998

212 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.32 kg

'Global Nation deals extremely well with issues that no Australian environmental education can afford to ignore. There is no better reference currently available that relates economic globalisation to global ecological issues and Wiseman's book should be high priority professional reading for all teachers of current and prospective VCE subjects/units including Environmental Studies/Science, Geography and Environmental Economics.' Noel Gough, Deakin University

Globalisation was one of the most ubiquitous buzzwords of the late twentieth century, yet its meaning was often elusive. Retrenchments, trade alliances, global warming, currency devaluations, and so on are often explained as unavoidable consequences of globalisation, and even everyday things - from the food we eat to the television we watch and the clothes we wear - are apparently impacted upon by globalisation. This 1998 book provides an accessible exploration of the meanings and implications of globalisation. The discussion is carefully grounded in the changing social, economic, ecological, and political relationships of Australia. Global Nation? also looks at a range of existing and potential responses to the globalisation process, arguing that there may be alternatives, even though we are increasingly told that there are not.

1. Global nation? An introduction
2. Breaking the spell? Understanding globalisation
3. Transforming the global economy? Trade, capital and economic power in the late twentieth century
4. Onto the global racetrack? Globalising the Australian economy
5. The price of competitiveness? The social impact of globalisation on Australia
6. Wired to the world? Australia and the globalisation of media and information technologies
7. Nowhere to hide? Australia in the global environment
8. Where in the world? Transforming Australian political relationships and national identities
9. Alternative strategies? Thinking and acting globally and regionally
10. Alternative strategies? Thinking and acting locally and nationally
11. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Nationalism [JPFN]