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Global studies has become one of the most vigorous subjects in cultural studies and the social sciences. Politics, international capital, revolutions in technology and communication, social and environmental struggles all compel us to study the world as a world. This timely anthology brings together dozens of outstanding scholars including David Harvey, Herbert Schiller, Sherry Turkle, Zillah Eisenstein, David Morley, Bryan S. Turner, and Jeremy Rifkin, For readers in the social sciences and the humanities, The Reader addresses the big communications and global media, political economy, cultural homogeneity and heterogeneity, new technologies, tourism, beliefs, and identity.
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John Beynon is Reader and David Dunkerley is Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Wales.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Globalization: The Reader brings together the key texts on the most pressing and pervasive issue of our times. The 21st Century, already heralded as the global century, has opened with battles being fought for control of the global media and control of global culture itself. As the market economy expands to map the globe and as society becomes a global rather than a national concept, the nature of culture itself is changing. The engines of this change are the global media, changing the ways we communicate, travel, consume, understand space and time, make money, make love, make war, identify with others, identify ourselves, fight against the machine The Reader opens with a broad introduction to the history of globalization and the major contemporary debates, concepts and theorists. The main body of the book comprises over 100 extracts from the worlds leading commentators on society, culture, media and technology, and political economy. Seller Inventory # 109814