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Globalization in Practice

Globalization in Practice

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  • ISBN:9780199212637
  • Editorial: Oxford University Press
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  • Nº Pág.:320
  • Idiomas:Ingles,Inglés

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The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one. Whilst our understanding of the politics, economics, and social resonance of the phenomenon has become increasingly sophisticated at the macro-level, this book argues that globalization too often continues to be depicted as a set of extra-terrestrial forces with no real physical manifestation, except as effects. The essays challenge this dominant understanding of 'globalization from above' through explorations of the mundane means by which globalization has been achieved. Instead of a focus on the meta-political economy of global capitalism, the book concentrates on the everyday life of capitalism, the not-so-'little' things that keep the 'large' forces of globalization ticking over. With its eye on the mundane, the book demonstrates that a series of everyday and, consequently, all but invisible formations critically facilitate and create the conditions under which globalization has flourished. The emphasis is on concrete moments in the history of capitalism when these new means of regular reproduction were invented and deployed. Only by understanding these infrastructures can we understand the dynamics of globalization. In short, punchy essays by distinguished researchers from across a range of disciplines, this book provides a new way of understanding globalization, moving away from the standard accounts of global forces, economic flows, and capitalist dynamics, to show how ordinary practices and artefacts are crucial elements and symbols of globalization.

INTRODUCTION ; Respecifying Globalization ; TRAVEL, TOURISM, AND MOBILITY ; Airports ; Backpacking ; Walking ; Mobile Phone ; Mobility ; World Maps ; Airport Security ; Passports ; Business Travel ; Sex Workers ; Gap Year ; INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT ; Pipelines ; Pipes and Wires ; Automated Repair and Back-up Systems ; Global Recycling: The Case of Electronic Waste ; Road Safety and Traffic Management ; Containers ; Resisting the Global ; Globalization of a Labour Market: The Case of Seafarers ; Banal Globalization: The Deep Structure of Oil and Gas ; Putting Standards to Work The Taste and Smell of Globalization ; FINANCE AND BUSINESS ; Flowers ; Bureaux de Change ; LIBOR ; Taking Note of Export Earnings ; Filthy Lucre: Urine for Sale ; Emotion in Finance ; Credit Rating Agencies ; Globalization s Freelancers, Democracy s Decline: Harvard, the Chubais Clan, and U.S. Aid to Russia ; Stock Trading ; MEDIA, CONSUMPTION, AND LEISURE ; Cigarette Packages: The Big Red Chevron and the 282 Little Kids ; Collecting and Consumption in the Era of eBay ; Interaction Order of Auctions of Fine Art and Antiques ; Intellectual Property ; Curvature of Global Brand Space ; Bollywood ; Global News (Service) Networks ; How Rounders Goes Around the World ; HEALTH AND NATURE ; Biodiversity and Globalization ; Mobility and the Medical Image ; e-Solutions to Sharing Information in Child Protection: the Rise and Fall of ContactPoint ; Globalizing of Bananas: Of Rhizomes, Fungi, and Mobility Systems ; ORDER AND CONTROL ; Forms that Form ; Accounting for the Calculating Self ; Replaying Society to the World Through CCTV ; AK-47 as a Material Global Artefact ; Human Rights ; CLASSIFICATIONS ; Area Based Classifications ; First Names: Examples from Germany ; One of My Top Ten Days ; Barcodes and RDIF ; ISO 9000 ; Number

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