The Blackwell companion to globalization

748 Pages·2007·3.6 MB·English

by  George Ritzer

The Blackwell Companion to Globalization
The Blackwell
Companion to
Globalization
Edited by
George Ritzer
© 2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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The Blackwell companion to globalization / edited by George Ritzer.
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1. Globalization. I. Ritzer, George.
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Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction
George Ritzer 1
PART I: INTRODUCTION 15
Introduction to Part I
George Ritzer 16
1. Globalization in Hard Times: Contention in the
Academy and Beyond
Anthony McGrew 29
2. What Is Globalization?
Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White 54
3. The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal Globalization
Robert J. Antonio 67
4. Globalization: The Major Players
George M. Thomas 84
5. Globalization Today
John Boli and Velina Petrova 103
6. Theories of Globalization
William I. Robinson 125
7. Studying Globalization: Methodological Issues
Salvatore Babones 144
vi contents
8. Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Theory for the
Twenty-fi rst Century
Ulrich Beck 162
PART II: THE MAJOR DOMAINS 177
Introduction to Part II
George Ritzer 178
9. The End of Globalization? The Implications of
Migration for State, Society and Economy
Subhrajit Guhathakurta, David Jacobson and
Nicholas C. DelSordi 201
10. Globalization and the Agrarian World
Philip McMichael 216
11. Globalization and the Environment
Steve Yearley 239
12. Cities and Globalization
Michael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma 254
13. The Sociology of Global Organizations
Stewart Clegg and Chris Carter 272
14. Economic Globalization: Corporations
Peter Dicken 291
15. Outsourcing: Globalization and Beyond
George Ritzer and Craig Lair 307
16. Globalization and Consumer Culture
Douglas J. Goodman 330
17. Cultural Globalization
John Tomlinson 352
18. Globalization and Ideology
Manfred B. Steger 367
19. Media and Globalization
Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce 383
20. Globalization and Information and Communications
Technologies: The Case of War
Howard Tumber and Frank Webster 396
21. Political Globalization
Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford 414
22. Globalization and Public Policy
Tim Blackman 429
contents vii
23. Religion and Globalization
Peter Beyer 444
24. Globalization and Higher Education
Peter Manicas 461
25. Sport and Globalization
David L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger 478
26. The Fate of the Local
Melissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada Jr 498
27. Public Health in a Globalizing World: Challenges and
Opportunities
Farnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach 516
PART III: MAJOR ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS 539
Introduction to Part III
George Ritzer 540
28. Globalization and Global Inequalities: Recent Trends
Glenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling 549
29. World Inequality in the Twenty-fi rst Century: Patterns
and Tendencies
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and
Timothy Patrick Moran 565
30. Globalization and Corruption
Carolyn Warner 593
31. Globalization and Sexuality
Kathryn Farr 610
32. War in the Era of Economic Globalization
Gerald Schneider 630
33. Globalization and International Terrorism
Gus Martin 644
34. Resisting Globalization
Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner 662
35. The Futures of Globalization
Bryan S. Turner 675
Index 693
Illustrations
FIGURES
1.1 Debating globalization 32
1.2 Modes of analysis 34
1.3 Normative spaces 46
1.4 Contentious politics: the remaking of globalization 47
9.1 Immigration to the United States, 1820–2001 203
22.1 The relationship between education spending and patents 433
22.2 Income inequality and prison population rate, OECD countries 440
27.1 Detailed conceptual framework for globalization and health
designed by Woodward et al. (1999) 517
27.2 Projected deaths by major cause and World Bank income group,
all ages, 2005 524
29.1 Historical trends in between-country inequality: 1820–2004 566
29.2 Inequality trends for selected high-income countries 573
29.3 Inequality trends in India and China 574
29.4 Inequality trends for selected East Asian and Latin American
countries 578
TABLES
8.1 Paradigmatic change from a national perspective to a
cosmopolitan social science 166
8.2 Sociology of social inequalities in the tension between the
national and the cosmopolitan perspectives 168
14.1 Some ideal-types of TNC organization: basic characteristics 301
29.1 Economic measures in China by selected regions, 2003 576
29.2 Education and health measures in India by selected states,
1998–1999 577
illustrations ix
BOXES
12.1 Friedmann’s ‘World Cities’, 1986 and 1995 261
12.2 Rankings of 23 of Friedmann’s 30 world cities (from highest to
lowest ‘interconnectivity’), 1991 267
12.3 Recent empirically based estimates of the top world cities 268
27.1 Our Common Interest: Report for the Commission for Africa
(2005) 532
Contributors
David L. Andrews is an Associate Professor of Sport Commerce and Culture in the
Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA,
and an affi liate faculty member of the Departments of American Studies and Sociol-
ogy. He is assistant editor of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, and an editorial
board member of the Sociology of Sport Journal, Leisure Studies, and Quest. He
has published on a variety of topics related to the critical analysis of sport as an
aspect of contemporary commercial culture. His recent publications include Sport–
Commerce–Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (2006), Sport,
Culture, and Advertising: Identities, Commodities, and the Politics of Representa-
tion (with S.J. Jackson, 2005), Sport and Corporate Nationalisms (with M.L. Silk
and C.L. Cole, 2005), and Manchester United: A Thematic Study (2004). He has
also guest edited special issues of the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, the Sociol-
ogy of Sport Journal, Cultural Studies–Critical Methodologies and South Atlantic
Quarterly.
Robert J. Antonio teaches sociology at the University of Kansas, USA. He is the
editor of Marx and Modernity: Key Readings and Commentary (Blackwell, 2003).
He has written widely on classical, contemporary and critical theory. He also has
done work on various facets of globalization, frequently collaborating on that topic
with Alessandro Bonanno.
Salvatore Babones is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh,
USA, with secondary appointments in Pitt’s Graduate Schools of Public Health and
Public and International Affairs. He is co-editor with Christopher Chase-Dunn of
the forthcoming volume Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Per-
spectives. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of social stratifi ca-
tion in broad cross-national perspective. He is currently studying the relationship
between economic globalization and domestic income inequality at the country
level.