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Globalization is a highly debated term, and struggles over its meaning are played out in a variety of ways, from academe and the media to the streets of Seattle, Melbourne and Genoa. This book provides a welcome introduction to the discourses, practices and technologies that have been grouped together under that term. It outlines the historical contexts of globalization, and addresses the politics of naming that are so central to the reproduction of the narratives and patterns of globalization. The authors examine specific sites that are being transformed by globalization such as capitalism, state governments, the media and cultural identity, and explore the notion of a post-globalization world. This will be a valuable book to undergraduate and MA students on communication, media, cultural studies, sociology, politics and development courses.
Globalization: History and Ideology
Globalization: History and Ideology
In our previous chapter we suggested that globalization could be understood as a set of technologies, institutions and networks operating within, and at the same time transforming, contemporary social, cultural, political and economic spheres of activity. But we also stressed that globalization is as much a set of ideas, and ways of discussing these ideas, so that the changes, and the consequences associated with them, need to be contextualized within what we termed ‘the politics of naming’. In other words, it is the evaluation and interpretation–the naming–of those technologies, institutions and networks as socially, culturally, economically and historically identifiable phenomena that in a sense bring globalization into being, or make it real to most people.
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