TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eriksen,Thomas Hylland
TI  - Globalization: the key concepts 
T2  - The key concepts
SN  - 9781032297514 (pbk.)
U1  - 306 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Culture and globalization
KW  - Sociology
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007018029.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2007018029-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2007018029-d.html
ER  -