What is Globalization? - Brossura

Beck, Ulrich

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ISBN 10: 0745621260 ISBN 13: 9780745621265

Casa editrice: Polity, 1999

Riassunto

This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.

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This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate. Beck aims to clarify the ambiguities of the debate, to distinguish between the various types of globalization and to warn the reader of conceptual traps. Most importantly, however, he opens up the horizon for political responses to globalization.

Beck focuses on two main questions: what does globalization mean? and how can it be moulded politically? He begins by examining the ambivalences and paradoxes of globality and globalization, with regard to society, economics, politics, ecology and culture. He sets out the rival perspectives in the globalization debate and assesses the prospects for a transnational state. Central to the book is Beck's argument that a decisive critique of globalism is necessary to make space for the primacy of politics. In the last section, he offers a series of constructive proposals to counter the current paralysis of politics, suggesting ten ways of addressing and answering the challenges of the global age. The book concludes by conjecturing that if our politicians do not respond creatively to the challenge, we will experience what Beck calls 'the Brazilianization of Europe'.

This book will be an important text for students and scholars in politics, sociology, geography and the social sciences generally. It will also appeal to a broader audience interested in key social and political issues in the world today.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Polity
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0745621260
• ISBN 13: 9780745621265
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile