Globalization : the key concepts / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-170) and index.

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? -- Global governance? -- Translation -- Remittances and cheap calls -- Football and globalization -- Delinking, chosen and enforced -- Transnational migration -- Outsourcing the nation-state? -- Tourism -- The tourist and the refugee -- Long-distance nationalism -- Nostalgia -- Forms of mixing -- Hybridity and creolization -- World music -- A 'mixed' family in Mauritius -- A model -- 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' -- Identity politics as a response to globalization -- The case of indigenous peoples -- Re-embedding in diasporas -- The importance of trust.

"The causes and the effects of globalization are hotly disputed and the book aims to present the range of arguments in a clear and balanced way. However, arguing that variation is as characteristic of globalization as standardization, the book stresses the necessity for a bottom-up, comparative analysis. Distinguishing between the cultural, political, economic and ecological aspects of globalization, the book highlights the implications of globalization for people's everyday lives. Throughout, the discussion is illustrated with wide-ranging case material. Chapter summaries and a guide to further reading underline the book's concern to clarify this most complex and influential of ideas." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0727/2007018029-d.html.