ISBN:
0745634745
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9781299939530
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (PDF, 1411 KB, 240 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Theories of Globalization
DDC:
303.482
Keywords:
Globalization
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Globalisierung
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Theorie
Abstract:
Theories of Globalizationoffers students and scholars a comprehensive and critical introduction to the concept of globalization. Barrie Axford expertly guides readers through the full range of perspectives on the topic, from international political economy to geography, global anthropology to cultural and communication studies. In so doing he draws out the common threads between competing theories, as well as pinpointing the problems that challenge our understanding of globalization. Key terms such as 'globalism' and 'globality' are carefully explained and central themes like capitalism, governance, culture and history explored in full.In assessing the contribution made by globalization theory, Axford's account also sheds new light on several crucial current issues. These range from the changing shape of democracy and citizen engagement with governance, to issues surrounding 'just war' and humane intervention, and problems relating to empire and post-colonialism.This wide-ranging and detailed new book will be essential reading for students and scholars of international politics, sociology and any area where the concept of globalization is discussed and disputed. Barrie Axford is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: What's in a Name? Themes, Concepts and Obfuscations; Introduction; Theory and the Scholarship of Globalization; Globalization scholarship: Globalization as a proto-paradigm; What's in a Name?; Globalization as a conjuncture: History and happenstance; A Rose by Any Other Name?; Globalization, globalism or globality: One out of three or three in one?; Globalization as process; Globalism as ideology; Globality as consciousness or system; Conclusion; 2: Theorizing Globalization: Political Science and Sociology; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Political Science: International Relations and its VariantsSociology; World-systems analysis; World polity theory; World culture (globalization) theory; World society theory; Methodological cosmopolitanism; Conclusion; 3: Theorizing Globalization: Geography, Anthropology and Cultural and Communication Studies; Globalizing Space: Geography and Globalization; Space and time; Global Anthropology and the Anthropology of Globalization; Cultural and Communication Studies; Conclusion; 4: Theories of Globalization and Space; Introduction; Territory and Territoriality in a Globalizing World
Description / Table of Contents:
Scholte on territory and globalizationSassen: territory, scale and globalization; Scale and Social Process: Reviewing Topological Presuppositions; David Harvey's 'troubling geographies'; The Dialectic of Borders and Networks; Manuel Castells: The network state and the network society; Conclusion; 5: Theories of Globalization and Culture; Introduction; Global Culture(s); The Imbrication of, or Antinomy between, Global and Local Cultures; Local and global: Methodological glocalism; Cultural Convergence, Differentiation and Hybridization; Convergence; Difference or polarization?
Description / Table of Contents:
Cultural hybridization as a global iconCommunication and Culture, or the Symbolic Production of Culture through Media Consumption; Conclusion; 6: Theories of Globalization and History; Introduction; What Is Global History?; Civilizational Analysis as a New Paradigm; Axial transformations and multiple modernities; Historical Sociology, International Relations and Globalization; Conclusion; 7: Theories of Globalization and Governance; Introduction; The State and Stateness; The Liberal International Order; Global Governance; Global Civil Society and the Democratization of Global Governance
Description / Table of Contents:
Globalization, Democracy and Normative CosmopolitanismConclusion; 8: Theories of Globalization and Capitalism; Introduction; The Idea of a (Capitalist) Global Economy; Shifts in global political economy?; Sceptical Accounts of Capitalist Global Political Economy; Neo-Liberalism and Global Capitalism; Impassioned and Dispassionate Critiques of Neo-Liberal Globalization; Basically reformist; Activist/empirical-radical critiques; Neo-Marxist critiques; Critical IPE, constructivism and the capitalist world economy; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
9: All Change: Critical Globalization Studies or a Social Science of Globality?
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