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Readings in Globalization
Key Concepts and Major Debates
George Ritzer (Edited by), G Ritzer (Author), Zeynep Atalay (Edited by)
9781405132732, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 9 April 2010
496 pages
24.4 x 18.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.93 kg
“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)
This unique and engaging anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes.
Introduction 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 Part I Political Economy 19 2 Civilizations 21 2 The Clash of Civilizations? 23 3 Global Utopias and Clashing Civilizations: Misunderstanding the Present 29 4 Can Civilizations Clash? 34 5 History Ends, Worlds Collide 36 6 If Not Civilizations, What? Paradigms of the Post-Cold War World 37 3 Orientalism, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism 43 7 Orientalism: Introduction 47 8 Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse 54 9 Postcolonialism and Its Discontents 57 10 Said’s Orientalism: A Vital Contribution Today 66 4 Neoliberalism 72 11 Freedom versus Collectivism in Foreign Aid 75 12 The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time 86 13 Freedom’s Just Another Word 101 14 Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism 111 5 Structural Adjustment 117 15 Structural Adjustment in East and Southeast Asia: Lessons from Latin America 119 16 The Social Consequences of Structural Adjustment: Recent Evidence and Current Debates 127 17 The Human Rights Effects of World Bank Structural Adjustment, 1981–2000 138 18 How International Monetary Fund and World Bank Policies Undermine Labor Power and Rights 146 19 Who Has Failed Africa?: IMF Measures or the African Leadership? 150 6 Nation-State 157 20 Sociology and the Nation-State in an Era of Shifting Boundaries 159 21 The Westfailure System 161 22 Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State 166 23 Globalization and the Resilience of State Power 175 24 Beyond Nation-State Paradigms: Globalization, Sociology, and the Challenge of Transnational Studies 179 7 Transnationalism 182 25 Transnational Practices 184 26 Social Theory and Globalization: The Rise of a Transnational State 195 27 Revisiting the Question of the Transnational State: A Comment on William Robinson’s “Social Theory and Globalization” 198 8 World Systems 203 28 The Modern World-System: Theoretical Reprise 205 29 Competing Conceptions of Globalization 210 9 Empire 214 30 Empire 217 31 The Global Coliseum: On Empire 226 32 Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations 228 33 Africa: the Black Hole at the Middle of Empire? 234 34 The New World Order (They Mean It) 240 35 Adventures of the Multitude: Response of the Authors 241 10 Network Society and Informationalism 244 36 Toward a Sociology of the Network Society 246 37 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells 252 11 World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism 260 38 The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited 263 39 Risk, Globalisation and the State: A Critical Appraisal of Ulrich Beck and the World Risk Society Thesis 271 40 Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda 280 41 Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism 285 12 McWorld and Jihad 288 42 Jihad vs McWorld 290 43 Paris Is Burning: Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber 297 44 Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism 301 45 On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism 305 Part II Culture 307 46 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms 309 13 Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization 319 47 The World in Creolisation 322 48 Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in Transnational Anthropology 324 49 Globalization as Hybridization 326 50 Glocalization: Time–Space and Homogeneity–Heterogeneity 334 14 Critiquing Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization 344 51 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition 347 52 The Global, the Local, and the Hybrid: A Native Ethnography of Glocalization 351 53 Globalization and Trinidad Carnival: Diaspora, Hybridity and Identity in Global Culture 356 54 Mapping the “Glocal” Village: The Political Limits of “Glocalization” 360 55 Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing 361 56 Dialectics of Something and Nothing: Critical Reflections on Ritzer’s Globalization Analysis 372 15 McDonaldization 380 57 An Introduction to McDonaldization 383 58 McDonaldization and the Global Culture of Consumption 389 59 The McDonald’s Mosaic: Glocalization and Diversity 393 60 Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia 396 61 Global Implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization 399 62 Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local – McDonald’s in Israel 402 16 World Culture 408 63 World Culture: Origins and Consequences 410 64 Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology’s Institutionalism 421 Sources and Credits 425 Index 429
Mauro F. Guillén
Samuel P. Huntington
John Gray
Jack F. Matlock, Jr
Chris Brown
Samuel P. Huntington
Edward W. Said
Sadik Jalal al-‘Azm
Ali Rattansi
Peter Marcuse
William Easterly
Karl Polanyi
David Harvey
Aihwa Ong
Jim Glassman and Pádraig Carmody
Sarah Babb
M. Rodwan Abouharb and David L. Cingranelli
Vincent Lloyd and Robert Weissman
Gerald Scott
Donald N. Levine
Susan Strange
Linda Weiss
Daniel Béland
William I. Robinson
Leslie Sklair
William I. Robinson
Philip McMichael
Immanuel Wallerstein
Leslie Sklair
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri interviewed by Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman
Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey
David Moore
Stanley Aronowitz
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Manuel Castells
Peter Marcuse
Ulrich Beck
Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider
Craig Calhoun
Benjamin R. Barber
Fareed Zakaria
Bryan S. Turner
Benjamin R. Barber
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Ulf Hannerz
Ulf Hannerz
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Roland Robertson
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Marwan M. Kraidy
Keith Nurse
William H. Thornton
George Ritzer
Douglas Kellner
George Ritzer
Malcolm Waters
Bryan S. Turner
James L. Watson
Alan Bryman
Uri Ram
Frank J. Lechner and John Boli
Martha Finnemore
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
