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This unique and engaging anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes. Readings in Globalization illustrates that major debates in the field are not only useful to examine for their own merit but can extend our knowledge of globalization.

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This unique and engaging anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes. Introduces globalization through its basic concepts, rather than thematically; a distinctive approach that provides students with a better grasp of what social science has to offer on the topicUtilizes concepts from interdisciplinary sources, bringing together work from key figures across a number of fields - from Weber and Marx, to contemporary figures in the field, including Beck, Bauman, Castells, and Homi BhabhaIncludes excerpts to illustrate ideas, all at an appropriate level of difficulty for an undergraduate audienceOffers all of this in the dynamic context of major debates surrounding the basic concepts and the fundamental realities of globalizationDesigned so it can be used independently, or alongside Ritzer's Globalization: A Basic Text for a complete student resource

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READINGS IN GLOBALIZATION KEY CONCEPTS AND MAJOR DEBATES This unique anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes. This distinctive approach of exploring globalization through its basic concepts, rather than thematically, provides students with a better grasp of what social science has to offer on the topic. Readings in Globalization explores both the political economy of globalization and the relationship between culture and globalization. The wide range of concepts covered includes: civilizations, Orientalism, colonialism, postcolonialism, neoliberalism, structural adjustment, nation-state, transnationalism, world-systems, empire, network society, world risk society, cosmopolitanism, McWorld, creolization, hybridity, glocalization, McDonaldization, and world culture. With contributions from the work of leading figures across a variety of related disciplines, these carefully chosen readings help to clarify our knowledge and advance our understanding of globalization, revealing the often contradictory nature of an issue that is inexorably shaping the contemporary world. The volume is designed so it may be used independently, or alongside George Ritzer's Globalization: A Basic Text , for a complete student resource. For further information on Wiley-Blackwell's books in globalization, along with supporting resources,

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READINGS IN GLOBALIZATION KEY CONCEPTS AND MAJOR DEBATES This unique anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes. This distinctive approach of exploring globalization through its basic concepts, rather than thematically, provides students with a better grasp of what social science has to offer on the topic. Readings in Globalization explores both the political economy of globalization and the relationship between culture and globalization. The wide range of concepts covered includes: civilizations, Orientalism, colonialism, postcolonialism, neoliberalism, structural adjustment, nation-state, transnationalism, world-systems, empire, network society, world risk society, cosmopolitanism, McWorld, creolization, hybridity, glocalization, McDonaldization, and world culture. With contributions from the work of leading figures across a variety of related disciplines, these carefully chosen readings help to clarify our knowledge and advance our understanding of globalization, revealing the often contradictory nature of an issue that is inexorably shaping the contemporary world. The volume is designed so it may be used independently, or alongside George Ritzer's Globalization: A Basic Text , for a complete student resource. For further information on Wiley-Blackwell's books in globalization, along with supporting resources,

Author Biography

GEORGE RITZER is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and his awards include the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. He has authored numerous books, including several student textbooks, and is editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007 and continuing online), and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization (forthcoming). His books, the best known of which is The McDonaldization of Society (1993; 2008), have been translated into over 20 languages. ZEYNEP ATALAY is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Maryland. Her research interests lie in globalization, civil society, social movements, and NGO networks. Her current research explores the ways in which Muslim NGOs mobilize global networks through civil society.

Table of Contents

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

Review

"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)  

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This unique anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes. This distinctive approach of exploring globalization through its basic concepts, rather than thematically, provides students with a better grasp of what social science has to offer on the topic. Readings in Globalization explores both the political economy of globalization and the relationship between culture and globalization. The wide range of concepts covered includes: civilizations, Orientalism, colonialism, postcolonialism, neoliberalism, structural adjustment, nation-state, transnationalism, world-systems, empire, network society, world risk society, cosmopolitanism, McWorld, creolization, hybridity, glocalization, McDonaldization, and world culture. With contributions from the work of leading figures across a variety of related disciplines, these carefully chosen readings help to clarify our knowledge and advance our understanding of globalization, revealing the often contradictory nature of an issue that is inexorably shaping the contemporary world. The volume is designed so it may be used independently, or alongside George Ritzer's Globalization: A Basic Text , for a complete student resource. For further information on Wiley-Blackwell's books in globalization, along with supporting resources, .

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?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)  

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"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)

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Introduction to the Book. 1. Introduction to Globalization Debates. Part I: Political Economy. 2. Civilizations. 3. Orientalism, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism. 4. Neoliberalism. 5. Structural Adjustment. 6. Nation-State. 7. Transnationalism. 8. World Systems. 9. Empire. 10. Network Society and Informationalism. 11. World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism. 12. McWorld and Jihad. Part II: Culture. 13. Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization. 14. Critiquing Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization. 15. McDonaldization. 16. World Culture. Sources and Credits. Index.

Details ISBN1405132736 ISBN-10 1405132736 ISBN-13 9781405132732 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Year 2010 Format Paperback Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Subtitle Key Concepts and Major Debates Edited by Zeynep Atalay DEWEY 303.482 Media Book Illustrations Illustrations Short Title READINGS IN GLOBALIZATION Language English Series Wiley Desktop Editions Edition 1st Publication Date 2010-04-09 UK Release Date 2010-04-09 AU Release Date 2010-04-09 NZ Release Date 2010-04-09 US Release Date 2010-04-09 Author Zeynep Atalay Pages 496 Place of Publication Hoboken Audience Undergraduate Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this

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