Readings in globalization : key concepts and major debates / edited by George Ritzer and Zeynep Atalay.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction To the Book -- Introduction to Globalization Debates -- Is Globalization Civilizing, Destructive or Feeble? A Critique of Five Key Debates in the Social Science Literature / Mauro F. Guillen -- Part I. Political Economy -- 2. Civilizations -- The Clash of Civilizations / Samuel Huntington -- Global Utopias and Clashing Civilizations: Misunderstanding the Present / John Gray -- Can Civilizations Clash / Jack F. Matlock, Jr -- History Ends, Worlds Collide / Chris Brown -- If Not Civilizations, What? / Samuel Huntington -- 3. Orientalism, Colonialism and post-Colonialism -- Orientalism / Edward Said -- Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse / Sadik Jala al-Azm -- Postcolonialism and Its Discontents / Alia Rattansi -- Said's Orientalism: A Vital Contribution Today / Peter Marcuse -- 4. Neo-Liberalism -- Freedom versus Collectivism in Foreign Aid / William Easterly -- The Great Transformation: the Political and Economic Origins of Our Time / Karl Polanyi -- A Brief History of Neoliberalism / David Harvey -- Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty / Aiwha Ong -- 5. Structural Adjustment -- Structural Adjustment in Southeast Asia: Lessons from Latin America / Jim Glassman and Padraig Carmody -- The Social Consequences of Structural Adjustment: Recent Evidence and Current Debates / Sarah Babb -- The Human Rights Effects of World Bank Structural Adjustment, 1981-2000 / M. Rodwan Abouharb and David L Gingranelli -- How International Monetary Fund and World BankPolicies Undermine Labor Power and Rights (Vincent Lloyd and Robert) (Weissman) -- Who Has Failed Africa? IMF Measures or the African Leadership? / Gerald Scott -- 6. Nation-State -- Sociology and the Nation-State in an Era of Shifting Boundaries / Donald Levine -- The Westfailure System / Susan Strange -- Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State / Linda Weiss -- States of Global Insecurity: Policy, Politics and Society / Daniel Beland -- Beyond Nation-State Paradigms / W.I. Robinson -- 7. Transnationalism -- Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives / Leslie Sklair -- Social Theory and Globalization: The Rise of a Transnational State / William Robinson -- Revisiting the Question of the Transnational State: A Comment on William Robinson's 'social Theory and Globalization / Philip McMichael -- 8. World-Systems -- The Modern World-System / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Competing Conceptions of Globalization' Revisited: Relocating the Tension between World-Systems Analysis and Globalization Analysis / Lesley Sklair -- After Developmentalism and Globalization, What? / Immanuel Wallerstein -- 9. Empire -- Empire / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri / Interviewed by Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman -- Retrieving the Imperial: Empire and International Relations / Tarak Barkawi and Mark Laffey -- Africa: The Black Hole at the Middle of Empire / David Moore -- The New World Order They Mean It / Stanley Aronowitz -- Adventures of the Multitude: Response of the Authors / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- 10. Network Society and Informationalismp -- Toward a Sociology of the Network Society / Manuel Castells -- Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society of Manuel Castells / Peter Marcuse -- 11. World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism -- The Terrorist Threat: World Risk Society Revisited / Ulrich Beck -- Risk, Globalization and the State: A Critical Appraisal of Ulrich Beck and the World Risk Society Thesis / Darryl S. l. Jarvis -- 11b. Cosmopolitanism -- Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda / Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider -- Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism / Craig Calhoun -- 12. McWorld -- Jihad vs. McWorld / Benjamin Barber -- Paris is Burning / Fareed Zakaria -- Sovereignty and Emergency: Political Theology, Islam and American Conservatism / Bryan S. Turner -- Beyond Jihad vs. McWorld: On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism / Benjamin Barber -- Part II. Culture -- Globalization and Culture: Three Paradigms / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- 13.1. Creolization, Hybridity, Glocalization -- The World in Creolization / Ulf Hannerz -- Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in Transnational Anthropology / Ulf Hannerz -- Globalization as Hybridization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Glocalization: Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity / Roland Robertson -- 13.2. Critiquing Creolization, Hybridity, Glocalization -- Hybridity, So What? The Anti-Hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- The Global, the Local and the Hybrid: A Native Ethnography of Glocalization / Marwan M. Kraidy -- 13. Globalization and Trinidad Carnival: Diaspora, Hybridity and Identity in Global Culture (Keith Nurse) -- Mapping the 'Glocal' Village: The Political Limits of 'Glocalization' / William H. Thornton -- Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization /Grobalization and Something /Nothing / George Ritzer -- Dialectics of Something and Nothing: Critical Reflections on Ritzer's Globalization Analysis / Douglas Kellner -- 14. McDonaldization -- An Introduction to McDonaldization / George Ritzer -- McDonaldization and the Global Culture of Consumption / Malcolm Waters -- The McDonald's Mosaic: Glocalization and Diversity / Bryan Turner -- Transnationalism, Localization and Fast Food in East Asia / James L. Watson -- Global Implications of McDonaldization and Disneyization / Alan Bryman -- Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local: McDonald's in Israel / Uri Ram -- 15. World Culture -- World Culture: Origins and Consequences / Frank Lechner and John Boli -- Norms, Culture, and World Politics: Insights from Sociology's Institutionalism / Martha Finnemore.

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