Globalization: the key concepts

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For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics. Ours is an era of ubiquitous mobile communication, economic outsourcing, mass migration and imported consumer goods. At the same time, people everywhere are concerned to keep their identities rooted and sense of place in the face of momentous change. This new edition of Thomas Hylland Eriksen's concise and engaging landmark textbook outlines the ma…

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Full title :Globalization : the key concepts / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014, ©2014.
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014, ©2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780857857651, 0857857657, 9780857855817, 0857855816, 9781000189674, 1000189678, 9781282473690, 1282473697, 0857857428, 9780857857422
DOI:10.4324/9781003085492
oclc:ocn956972149
LC Classification:GN27.E69 2007
Dewey Decimal:306

Introduction: a shrinking planet -- Disembedding -- Speed -- Standardization -- Connections -- Mobility -- Mixing -- Risk -- Identity -- Politics -- Alterglobalization -- Afterword: an overheated world -- Bibliography -- Index.

Subjects

Anthropologie anthropology Culture and globalization Culture et mondialisation Globalisering Globalisierung globalism Globalization Globalization -- Social aspects Kultur och globalisering Mondialisation Mondialisation -- Aspect social POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization Social & cultural anthropology, ethnogr… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology Society