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Globalization: The Human Consequences (Themes for the 21st Century Series) Paperback - 1998
by Zygmunt Bauman
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- Title Globalization: The Human Consequences (Themes for the 21st Century Series)
- Author Zygmunt Bauman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used; Very Good
- Pages 136
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, United Kingdom
- Date 07/13/1998
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 2795222
- ISBN 9780745620138 / 0745620132
- Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.31 in (19.05 x 13.97 x 0.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects International economic relations, Internationalism
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.23
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From the rear cover
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 as uninvited and cruel fate for many others. Freedom to move, a scarce and unequally distributed commodity, quickly becomes the main stratifying factor of our times.
Neo-tribal and fundamentalist tendencies are as legitimate offspring of globalization as the widely acclaimed 'hybridization' of top culture - the culture at the globalized top. A particular reason to worry is the progressive breakdown in communication between the increasingly global and extra- territorial elites and ever more 'localized' majority. The bulk of the population, the 'new middle class', bears the brunt of these problems, and suffers uncertainty, anxiety and fear as a result.
This book is a major contribution to the unfolding debate about globalization, and as such will be of interest to students and professionals in sociology, human geography and cultural issues.