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.
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