Globalization

Globalization: the human consequences

by Bauman, Zygmunt

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'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the term. Alongside the emerging planetary dimensions of business, finance, trade and information flow, a 'localizing', space-fixing process is set in motion. What appears as globalization for some, means loc…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Globalization : the human consequences / Zygmunt Bauman.

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'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface manifestations. Unpacking the social roots and social consequences of globalizing processes, this book disperses some of the mist that surrounds the term. Alongside the emerging planetary dimensions of business, finance, trade and information flow, a 'localizing', space-fixing process is set in motion. What appears as globalization for some, means localization for many others; signalling new freedom for some, globalizing processes appear.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2005, ©1998.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Polity Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2005, ©1998.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vi, 136 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780745674384, 0745674380
  • oclc:ocn849945882
  • LC Classification:JZ1308
  • Dewey Decimal:304.2/3

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Time and Class; 2 Space Wars: a Career Report; 3 After the Nation-state -- What; 4 Tourists and Vagabonds; 5 Global Law, Local Order; Notes; Index

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Subjects

Freedom of movement International economic relations internationalism Internationalisme Libre circulation des personnes Libros electrónicos Mobilité sociale Postmodernism -- Social aspects Postmodernisme -- Aspect social Social mobility

Writers

Bauman, Zygmunt

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