03614cam a22004334a 4500 14833339 OSt 20260106110638.0 070503s2007 enk b 001 0 eng 2007018029 9781032297514 (pbk.) 14833339 DLC JKRC DLC 306 23 ERI.T Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. author 38424 Globalization : the key concepts / by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. 2nd. [2022] London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. xi, 210 P. ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 1295.00 Rupees The key concepts : 1747-6550. Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index. Introduction -- Globalization today -- What globalization is not -- Globalizers and sceptics -- Dimensions of globalization -- Disembedding -- Introduction -- Globalization and distance -- Towards a more abstract world -- Abstract time and temperature -- Money as a means of communication -- Abstract music -- Watersheds -- Nationalism as a template for globalization -- Other disembedding mechanisms -- Critics of disembedding -- Acceleration -- Introduction -- Time-space compression -- Accelerated change -- Acceleration in the media -- Simultaneity -- Some further implications of acceleration -- Standardization -- Introduction -- Some standards of a global modernity -- Some contemporary forms of standardization -- Obsolescence -- The globalization of nothing -- McWorld and its discontents -- MS word -- Human rights and identity politics -- The non-standardized -- Interconnectedness -- Introduction -- The network society -- Communication networks -- A networked global economy? -- Global governance? -- Translation -- Remittances and cheap calls -- Football and globalization -- Delinking, chosen and enforced -- Movement -- Introduction -- Transnational migration -- Outsourcing the nation-state? -- Tourism -- The tourist and the refugee -- Long-distance nationalism -- Nostalgia -- Mixing -- Introduction -- Forms of mixing -- Hybridity and creolization -- World music -- A "mixed" family in Mauritius -- A model -- Vulnerability -- Introduction -- Natural and manufactured risks -- Perceived risks and real consequences -- Climate change -- Climate change and global democracy -- Reliance on expert systems -- Globalization and the "war on terror" -- Re-embedding -- Introduction -- Identity politics as a response to globalization -- The case of indigenous peoples -- Re-embedding in diasporas -- The importance of trust -- Questions for essays and class discussion -- Annotated guide for further reading -- General bibliography -- Index. Anthropology. Globalization. Globalization Social aspects. Culture and globalization. 38003 Sociology Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007018029.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2007018029-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2007018029-d.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc 1 23 0 613240 613240 0 0 ddc 0 0 2 2 2026-01-06 The Forward Books, 25216 / 24-11-2025 523151 0 306 ERI.T 523151 2026-01-06 1295.00 2026-01-06 1 1295.00 Rupees