ABSTRACT
Both the force and the limitations of the globalizing forces operating in the world today can best be understood through an analysis of their concrete manifestations. Using examples from the people's art of Potsdammer Platz to the ways in which Western cultural icons are reinterpreted in Asian magazines, this collection of essays unpicks the rhetoric of globalization in political analysis, cultural theory and urban and economic sociology and exposes the myth of the global society as in many cases a dangerous exaggeration.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|49 pages
Contesting Global Forces
chapter 3|17 pages
The Global Common
The global, local and personal dynamics of the women's peace movement in the 1980s
part II|105 pages
Homogenized Culture or Enduring Diversity?
part III|75 pages
The National, the International and the Global
chapter 10|15 pages
Globalization, the Company and the Workplace
Some interim evidence from the auto industry in Britain
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part IV|72 pages
Theoretical Reflections
