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The Globalization Reader
Frank J. Lechner (Edited by), John Boli (Edited by)
9781119409946, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 2 January 2020
656 pages
24.4 x 17 x 2.8 cm, 1.089 kg
An introduction to the issues surrounding the complex and controversial realities of today's interconnected world, the revised sixth edition Since its initial publication, The Globalization Reader has been lauded for its comprehensive coverage of the issues surrounding globalization. Now in its sixth edition, the Reader has been thoroughly revised and updated and continues to review the most important global trends. Including readings by a variety of authors, the text offers a wide-ranging and authoritative introduction to the political, economic, cultural, and experiential aspects of globalization. The updated sixth edition presents the most accessible and comprehensive review of current debates and research. Contributions from scholars, activists, and organizations provide balanced viewpoints and expert coverage of the many aspects of globalization. The Globalization Reader offers readings on an exciting range of new topics as well as retaining key globalization topics such as the experience of globalization, economic and political globalization, the role of media and religion in cultural globalization, women’s rights, environmentalism, global civil society, and the alternative globalization movement. This important resource: Written for students in undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, political science, anthropology and geography, the revised sixth edition covers courses such as globalization, comparative political economy, international relations and similar topics.
Preface to the Sixth Edition xii General Introduction 1 Part I Debating Globalization 7 Introduction 8 1 The Hidden Promise: Liberty Renewed 11 2 How to Judge Globalism 19 3 The Elusive Concept of Globalisation 25 4 The Clash of Civilizations? 32 5 The Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 40 Part I Questions 46 Part II Explaining Globalization 47 Introduction 48 6 The Modern World‐System as a Capitalist World‐Economy 52 7 Sociology of the Global System 59 8 A Brief History of Neoliberalism 67 9 World Society and the Nation‐State 73 10 Globalization as a Problem 82 11 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 90 Part II Questions 99 Part III Experiencing Globalization 101 Introduction 102 12 Waves in the History of Globalization 105 13 McDonald’s in Hong Kong 112 14 The Transnational Villagers 121 15 Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization 129 16 Fear and Money in Dubai 137 17 Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism 142 18 An Anthropology of Structural Violence 147 19 Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche 154 Part III Questions 159 Part IV Globalization and the World Economy 161 Introduction 162 20 China Makes, the World Takes 167 21 Commodity Chains and Marketing Strategies: Nike and the Global Athletic Footwear Industry 173 22 The Sticky Superpower 184 23 Global Income Inequality by the Numbers: In History and Now: An Overview 189 24 The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It 194 25 The Global Financial Crisis and Its Effects 200 26 The Twin Excesses – Financialization and Globalization – Caused the Crash 207 27 Globalism’s Discontents 210 Part IV Questions 218 Part V Globalization and the Nation-State 219 Introduction 220 28 The Declining Authority of States 224 29 Global Organized Crime 231 30 Has Globalization Gone Too Far? 237 31 The Individualization of Society and the Liberalization of State Policies on Same‐Sex Sexual Relations, 1984–1995 244 32 Abortion Liberalization in World Society, 1960–2009 251 Part V Questions 258 Part VI Global Governance 261 Introduction 262 33 The International Monetary Fund 266 34 ISO and the Infrastructure for a Global Market 273 35 Global Health Governance: A Conceptual Review 280 36 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grant‐Making Programmefor Global Health 286 37 IMPACT: Transforming Business, Changing the World – The United Nations Global Compact 291 Part VI Questions 297 Part VII Globalization, INGOs, and Civil Society 299 Introduction 300 38 NGOs and Climate Crisis: Fragmentation, Lines of Conflict and Strategic Approaches 304 39 The Evolution of Debates over Female Genital Cutting 313 40 Women’s Human Rights and the Muslim Question: Iran’s One Million Signatures Campaign 320 41 World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of International Non‐Governmental Organization 328 42 Closing the Corruption Casino: The Imperatives of a Multilateral Approach 336 43 Trading Diamonds Responsibly: Institutional Explanations for Corporate Social Responsibility 341 44 Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development 348 Part VII Questions 354 Part VIII Globalization and Media 355 Introduction 356 45 Cultural Imperialism 360 46 Mapping Global Media Flow and Contra‐Flow 370 47 Hybridity and the Rise of Korean Popular Culture in Asia 377 48 Landing of the Wave: Hallyu in Peru and Brazil 383 49 Watching Big Brother at Work: A Production Study of Big Brother Australia 389 50 Bollywood versus Hollywood: Battle of the Dream Factories 397 51 Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care 405 Part VIII Questions 411 Part IX Globalization and Religion 413 Introduction 414 52 Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims 418 53 Globalised Islam: The Search for a New Ummah 423 54 The Christian Revolution 429 55 American Evangelicals: The Overlooked Globalizers and Their Unintended Gospel of Modernity 437 56 Religious Rejections of Globalization 443 57 The Decontexualization of Asian Religious Practices in the Context of Globalization 450 Part IX Questions 455 Part X Globalization and Identity 457 Introduction 458 58 Moral Choices and Global Desires: Feminine Identity in a Transnational Realm 461 59 Global/Indian: Cultural Politics in the IT Workplace 469 60 Strategic Inauthenticity 476 61 Orange Nation: Soccer and National Identity in the Netherlands 481 62 Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture 486 63 Cosmopolitanism & Humanism 492 Part X Questions 495 Part XI Global Environmentalism 497 Introduction 498 64 Greenpeace and Political Globalism 502 65 Environmental Advocacy Networks 510 66 Toward Democratic Governance for Sustainable Development: Transnational Civil Society Organizing around Big Dams 519 67 Ozone Depletion 526 68 Movements for Climate Justice in the US and Worldwide 531 69 Speech of the IPCC Chairman, Rajendra K. Pachauri, at the Opening Session of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland 539 Part XI Questions 542 Part XII Contesting Globalization: Alternatives and Opposition 545 Introduction 546 70 Counterhegemonic Globalization: Transnational Social Movements in the Contemporary Political Economy 550 71 The Global Justice Movement 557 72 The Twelve Assumptions of an Alter‐Globalisation Strategy 563 73 The Global South: The WTO and Deglobalization 568 74 Ecological Balance in an Era of Globalization 573 75 Porto Alegre Call for Mobilization 582 76 When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism 585 77 The Globalization of Rage: Why Today’s Extremism Looks Familiar 591 Part XII Questions 595 Index 597
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Amartya Sen
Cees J. Hamelink
Samuel P. Huntington
United Nations
Immanuel Wallerstein
Leslie Sklair
David Harvey
John W. Meyer, John Boli, George M. Thomas, and Francisco O. Ramirez
Roland Robertson
Arjun Appadurai
Frank J. Lechner
James L. Watson
Peggy Levitt
Aneesh Aneesh
Mike Davis
Sasha Issenberg
Paul Farmer
Ethan Watters
James Fallows
Miguel Korzeniewicz
The Economist
Branko Milanovic
Paul Collier
Malcolm Edey
Ashok Bardhan
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Susan Strange
James H. Mittelman
Dani Rodrik
David John Frank and Elizabeth H. McEneaney
Elizabeth H. Boyle, Minzee Kim, and Wesley Longhofer
James Vreeland
Craig N. Murphy and JoAnne Yates
Richard Dodgson, Kelley Lee, and Nick Drager
David McCoy, Gayatri Kembhavi, Jinesh Patel, and Akish Luintel
DNV GL Group and United Nations Global Compact
Barbara Unmusig
Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Rebecca L. Barlow
John Boli and George M. Thomas
Peter Eigen
Franziska Bieri and John Boli
Ananya Roy
John Tomlinson
Daya Kishan Thussu
Doobo Shim
Nusta Corranza Ko, Song No, Jeong‐Nam Kim, and Ronald Gobbi Simoes
Jane Roscoe
Heather Tyrrell
Tyler Cowen
Charles Kurzman
Olivier Roy
Philip Jenkins
Joshua J. Yates
Frank J. Lechner
Brooke Schedneck
Ernestine McHugh
Smitha Radhakrishnan
Timothy D. Taylor
Frank J. Lechner
Ulf Hannerz
C. Martin Centner
Paul Wapner
Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink
Sanjeev Khagram
Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie, and Janet Welsh Brown
Brian Tokar
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Peter Evans
Geoffrey Pleyers
Gustave Massiah
Walden Bello
Vandana Shiva
World Social Forum
Jonathan Haidt
Pankaj Mishra
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
