Globalization in the 21st Century

Manfred B. Steger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2024
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7972-7 (ISBN)

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The fate of globalization in the 21st century hangs in the balance. Although recent data show that most global integration has been on the rebound after the 2008-9 global financial meltdown and the COVID-19 pandemic, public sentiments about globalization have soured. The neoliberal glorification of globalization as beneficial market integration is running out of steam, while national-populist visions of “deglobalization” exert significant mass appeal. Today’s ostensible globalization backlash scenario seems to be confirmed by soaring inflation rates, global supply chain disruptions, accelerating climate change and ecological deterioration, lagging transitions to greener forms of energy, escalating economic inequality, and rising geopolitical competition among the Great Powers, especially the United States-China rivalry and the protracted Russian-Ukrainian war. On the flipside, however, such grim scenarios reinforce the fact that most of today’s problems are global in nature. This book provides an accessible assessment of 21st-century globalization that draws on global theory and history to engage pressing issues such as digitization, ideological polarization, higher education, demographics, human development, and the environment. Assembling such a big picture of globalization in this young century supports the practical efforts of setting the globe on a more equitable and sustainable path.

Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the U.S. State Department and as an advisor to the PBS television series, Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. He is the author of over 30 books and numerous articles on globalization, and social and political theory, including The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008); the award-winning Globalisms: Facing the Populist Challenge, 4th ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020); and the bestselling Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, 6th ed. (Oxford UP 2023).

Preface & Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

PART I: HISTORIES & THEORIES

A Genealogy of “Globalization”

The Four Meaning Branches of the Family Tree Called “Globalization”

The Neoliberal Revolution and the “Globalization of Markets”

Concluding Reflections on the Meaning of “Globalization” in this Book

Four Ages of Globalization

Periodizing Globalization: Perilous Pitfalls

Periodizing Globalization: Alternative Models

The Age of the Embodied Globalization (10000BCE–3000BCE)

The Age of Institutional Globalization (3000BCE – 1600CE)

The Age of Objectified Globalization (1600–1914)

The Age of Disembodied Globalization (1914–2000)

Concluding Reflections

A Critical Appraisal of Globalization Theory

Globalization Theory: The Basics

The Dominant Framework of Globalization Theory

An Alternative Framework of Globalization Theory

The Generalizing Mode

The Domain Mode

The Complexity Mode

Concluding Remarks

PART II: IDEOLOGIES & MOVEMENTS

Contending Globalisms

Political Ideologies and Social Imaginaries

Ideological Struggles of the 21st Century

Concluding Reflections

The Challenge of Antiglobalist Populism

The Significance of Global Crises

What Is National-Populism?

Mapping Trump’s Antiglobalist Populism

The Populist Paradox

Concluding Reflections of the Future of Antiglobalist Populism

PART III: ISSUES & PROBLEMS

The Rise of Global Studies in Higher Education

The Institutional Evolution of Global Studies

The Global Studies Story at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)

The First Pillar of Global Studies: Globalization

The Second Pillar of Global Studies: Transdisciplinarity

The Third Pillar of Global Studies: Space & Time

The Fourth Pillar of Global Studies: Critical Thinking

Concluding Remarks: Critiques of Global Studies

Digital Globalization in the COVID-19 Era

Four Social Formations of Globalization

Digitization and Disjunctive Globalization

The Production of the Unhappy Consciousness

Concluding Reflections on the Impact of COVID-19

Globalization in 2040: Environment, Population, Development

Environment

Population

Development

Concluding Reflections

Notes

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2024
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-7972-5 / 1538179725
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-7972-7 / 9781538179727
Zustand	Neuware