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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Globalization Today | |
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| What Globalization Is Not | |
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| Globalizers and Sceptics | |
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| Dimensions of Globalization | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Disembedding | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Globalization and Distance | |
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| Towards a More Abstract World | |
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| Abstract Time and Temperature | |
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| Money as a Means of Communication | |
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| Abstract Music | |
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| Watersheds | |
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| Nationalism as a Template for Globalization | |
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| Other Disembedding Mechanisms | |
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| Critics of Disembedding | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Acceleration | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Time-Space Compression | |
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| Accelerated Change | |
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| Acceleration in the Media | |
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| Simultaneity | |
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| Some Further Implications of Acceleration | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Standardization | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Some Standards of a Global Modernity | |
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| Some Contemporary Forms of Standardization | |
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| Obsolescence | |
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| The Globalization of Nothing | |
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| McWorld and its Discontents | |
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| MS Word | |
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| Human Rights and Identity Politics | |
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| The Non-Standardized | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Interconnectedness | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Network Society | |
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| Communication Networks | |
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| A Networked Global Economy? | |
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| Global Governance? | |
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| Translation | |
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| Remittances and Cheap Calls | |
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| Football and Globalization | |
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| Delinking, Chosen and Enforced | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Movement | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Transnational Migration | |
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| Outsourcing the Nation-State? | |
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| Tourism | |
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| The Tourist and the Refugee | |
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| Long-Distance Nationalism | |
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| Nostalgia | |
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| Mixing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Forms of Mixing | |
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| Hybridity and Creolization | |
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| World Music | |
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| A 'Mixed' Family in Mauritius | |
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| A Model | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Vulnerability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Natural and Manufactured Risks? | |
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| Perceived Risks and Real Consequences | |
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| Climate Change | |
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| Climate Change and Global Democracy | |
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| Reliance on Expert Systems | |
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| Globalization and the 'War on Terror' | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Re-embedding | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Identity Politics as a Response to Globalization | |
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| The Case of Indigenous Peoples | |
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| Re-embedding in Diasporas | |
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| The Importance of Trust | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| Questions for Essays and Class Discussion | |
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| Annotated Guide for Further Reading | |
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| General Bibliography | |
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| Index | |