Bauman, Zygmunt
Globalization: The Human Consequences
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.
Keywords: globalization; use; currently; surface; attempt; manifestations; book; consequences; social; globalizing processes; mist; term; business; dimensions; planetary; process; spacefixing; motion; appears; many, Political Philosophy & Theory, Social Theory, Political Philosophy & Theory, Social Theory
- Author(s)
- Bauman, Zygmunt
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 1998
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Themes for the 21st Century
- Page amount
- 136 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9780745656953
- Printed ISBN
- 9780745620138