{"product_id":"readings-in-globalization-isbn-9781405132732","title":"Readings in Globalization","description":"This unique and engaging anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces 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 topic\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUtilizes 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 Bhabha\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes excerpts to illustrate ideas, all at an appropriate level of difficulty for an undergraduate audience\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers all of this in the dynamic context of major debates surrounding the basic concepts and the fundamental realities of globalization\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDesigned so it can be used independently, or alongside Ritzer’s \u003ci\u003eGlobalization: A Basic Text\u003c\/i\u003e for a complete student resource\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to the Book 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction to Globalization Debates 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive or Feeble? A Critique of Five Key Debates in the Social Science Literature 4\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMauro F. Guillén\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Political Economy 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Civilizations 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Clash of Civilizations? 23\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSamuel P. Huntington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Global Utopias and Clashing Civilizations: Misunderstanding the Present 29\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Gray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Can Civilizations Clash? 34\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack F. Matlock, Jr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 History Ends, Worlds Collide 36\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 If Not Civilizations, What? Paradigms of the Post-Cold War World 37\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamuel P. Huntington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Orientalism, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Orientalism: Introduction 47\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward W. Said\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse 54\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSadik Jalal al-‘Azm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Postcolonialism and Its Discontents 57\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAli Rattansi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Said’s Orientalism: A Vital Contribution Today 66\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Marcuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Neoliberalism 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Freedom versus Collectivism in Foreign Aid 75\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam Easterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time 86\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarl Polanyi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Freedom’s Just Another Word 101\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Harvey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism 111\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAihwa Ong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Structural Adjustment 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Structural Adjustment in East and Southeast Asia: Lessons from Latin America 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJim Glassman and Pádraig Carmody\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Social Consequences of Structural Adjustment: Recent Evidence and Current Debates 127\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Babb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Human Rights Effects of World Bank Structural Adjustment, 1981–2000 138\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eM. Rodwan Abouharb and David L. Cingranelli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 How International Monetary Fund and World Bank Policies Undermine Labor Power and Rights 146\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eVincent Lloyd and Robert Weissman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Who Has Failed Africa?: IMF Measures or the African Leadership? 150\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerald Scott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Nation-State 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Sociology and the Nation-State in an Era of Shifting Boundaries 159\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDonald N. Levine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The Westfailure System 161\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Strange\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State 166\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Weiss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Globalization and the Resilience of State Power 175\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Béland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Beyond Nation-State Paradigms: Globalization, Sociology, and the Challenge of Transnational Studies 179\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam I. Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Transnationalism 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Transnational Practices 184\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeslie Sklair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Social Theory and Globalization: The Rise of a Transnational State 195\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam I. Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Revisiting the Question of the Transnational State: A Comment on William Robinson’s “Social Theory and Globalization” 198\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip McMichael\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 World Systems 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Modern World-System: Theoretical Reprise 205\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eImmanuel Wallerstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Competing Conceptions of Globalization 210\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeslie Sklair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Empire 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Empire 217\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 The Global Coliseum: On Empire 226\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri interviewed by Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations 228\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Africa: the Black Hole at the Middle of Empire? 234\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Moore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 The New World Order (They Mean It) 240\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eStanley Aronowitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Adventures of the Multitude: Response of the Authors 241\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Hardt and Antonio Negri\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Network Society and Informationalism 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Toward a Sociology of the Network Society 246\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eManuel Castells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells 252\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Marcuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUlrich Beck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Risk, Globalisation and the State: A Critical Appraisal of Ulrich Beck and the World Risk Society Thesis 271\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDarryl S. L. Jarvis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda 280\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eUlrich Beck and Natan Sznaider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism 285\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eCraig Calhoun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 McWorld and Jihad 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Jihad vs McWorld 290\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBenjamin R. Barber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Paris Is Burning: Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber 297\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFareed Zakaria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism 301\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBryan S. Turner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism 305\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenjamin R. Barber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Culture 307\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms 309\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJan Nederveen Pieterse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 The World in Creolisation 322\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUlf Hannerz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in Transnational Anthropology 324\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eUlf Hannerz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 Globalization as Hybridization 326\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJan Nederveen Pieterse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 Glocalization: Time–Space and Homogeneity–Heterogeneity 334\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoland Robertson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Critiquing Creolization, Hybridity, and Glocalization 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition 347\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJan Nederveen Pieterse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 The Global, the Local, and the Hybrid: A Native Ethnography of Glocalization 351\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarwan M. Kraidy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 Globalization and Trinidad Carnival: Diaspora, Hybridity and Identity in Global Culture 356\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeith Nurse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54 Mapping the “Glocal” Village: The Political Limits of “Glocalization” 360\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam H. Thornton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization\/Grobalization and Something\/Nothing 361\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Ritzer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 Dialectics of Something and Nothing: Critical Reflections on Ritzer’s Globalization Analysis 372\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas Kellner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 McDonaldization 380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57 An Introduction to McDonaldization 383\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge Ritzer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 McDonaldization and the Global Culture of Consumption 389\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMalcolm Waters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59 The McDonald’s Mosaic: Glocalization and Diversity 393\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBryan S. Turner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60 Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia 396\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames L. Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61 Global Implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization 399\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Bryman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62 Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local – McDonald’s in Israel 402\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eUri Ram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 World Culture 408\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63 World Culture: Origins and Consequences 410\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrank J. Lechner and John Boli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64 Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology’s Institutionalism 421\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartha Finnemore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSources and Credits 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 429\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003ci\u003e  (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eID: International Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e February 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGEORGE RITZER\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Social Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e (2007 and continuing online), and \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming). His books, the best known of which is \u003ci\u003eThe McDonaldization of Society\u003c\/i\u003e (1993; 2008), have been translated into over 20 languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZEYNEP ATALAY\u003c\/b\u003e 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.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eREADINGS IN GLOBALIZATION KEY CONCEPTS AND MAJOR DEBATES\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReadings in Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume is designed so it may be used independently, or alongside George Ritzer's \u003ci\u003eGlobalization: A Basic Text\u003c\/i\u003e, for a complete student resource. 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