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Globalization: Debates
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The term globalization has only become commonplace in the last two decades, and academic commentators who employed the term as late as the 1970s accurately recognized the novelty of doing so (Modelski, 1972). At least since the advent of industrial capitalism... intellectual discourse has been replete with allusions to phenomena strikingly akin to those that have garnered the attention of recent theorists of globalization. Nineteenth and twentieth-century philosophy, literature, and social commentary include numerous references to an inchoate yet widely shared awareness that experiences of distance and space are inevitably transformed by the emergence of high-speed forms of transportation (for example, rail and air travel) and communication (the telegraph or telephone) that dramatically heighten possibilities for human interaction across existing geographical and political divides (Harvey, 1989; Kern, 1983). Long before the introduction of the term globalization into recent popular and scholarly debate, the appearance of novel high-speed forms of social activity generated extensive commentary about the compression of space.
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An account of the emergence and evolution of the transnational Zapatista solidarity network in the era of globalization. It provides an understanding of this movement as well as global solidarity and justice movements framed within the larger global debated on neoliberalism and democracy.
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If you've seen news coverage of protests in the streets of Seattle, Washington, and Genoa, Italy, you may wonder what the deal is with globalization and what it means for you. With this project, you'll begin with a subject that's familiar to all—food!—and explore the meaning of globalization through research, analysis, and debate.
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Three broad accounts of the nature and meaning of globalization can be identified, referred to here as the hyperglobalist, the sceptical, and the transformationalist views. These define the conceptual space of the current intensive debate about globalization.
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