Globalization : the key concepts / by Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

Table of Contents: “…Globalization today -- What globalization is not -- Globalizers and sceptics -- Dimensions of globalization -- 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 -- Time-space compression -- Accelerated change -- Acceleration in the media -- Simultaneity -- Some further implications of acceleration -- 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 -- The network society -- Communication networks -- A networked global economy? …”

Globalization : the key concepts / by Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

Table of Contents: “…Globalization today -- What globalization is not -- Globalizers and sceptics -- Dimensions of globalization -- 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 -- Time-space compression -- Accelerated change -- Acceleration in the media -- Simultaneity -- Some further implications of acceleration -- 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 -- The network society -- Communication networks -- A networked global economy? …”
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