The Limits Of Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780415105651 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 372 str.

Alan Scott;Alan Scott

Opis

Both the force and the limitations of the globalizing forces operating in the world today can best be understood through an analysis of their concrete manifestations. Using examples from the people's art of Potsdammer Platz to the ways in which Western cultural icons are reinterpreted in Asian magazines, this collection of essays unpicks the rhetoric of globalization in political analysis, cultural theory and urban and economic sociology and exposes the myth of the global society as in many cases a dangerous exaggeration.

Spis treści

1 INTRODUCTION — GLOBALIZATION: SOCIAL PROCESS OR POLITICAL RHETORIC? Part I Contesting global forces 2 THE FUTURES OF BERLIN’S POTSDAMER PLATZ 3 THE GLOBAL COMMON: THE GLOBAL, LOCAL AND PERSONAL; DYNAMICS OF THE WOMEN’S PEACE MOVEMENT IN THE 1980s Part II Homogenized culture or enduring diversity? 4 ‘ACROSS THE UNIVERSE’: THE LIMITS OF GLOBAL POPULAR CULTURE 5 AN ASIAN ORIENTALISM? LIBAS AND THE TEXTURES OF POSTCOLONIALISM 6 ELVIS IN ZANZIBAR 7 CHINESE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: CULTURE AND ECONOMIC ACTORS Part III The national, the international and the global 8 GLOBALIZATION, URBAN CHANGE AND URBAN POLICIES IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE 9 AIR TRANSPORT AND GLOBALIZATION: A SCEPTICAL VIEW 10 GLOBALIZATION, THE COMPANY AND THE WORKPLACE: SOME INTERIM EVIDENCE FROM THE AUTO INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 11 NATIONALISM AND THE FALL OF THE USSR Part IV Theoretical reflections: social theory, cultural subjectivism and disembedded markets 12 GLOBALIZATION AS AN EMERGENT CONCEPT 13 WIDER HORIZONS WITH LARGER DETAILS: SUBJECTIVITY, ETHNICITY AND GLOBALIZATION 14 THE WORLD MARKET UNBOUND

O autorze

Alan Scott