Globalization with a Human Face

Jung Min Choi, John W. Murphy, Manuel J. Caro

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN: 9780313057427
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This collection of essays reflects a wide array of realities and experiences of people from different areas of the world, including England, Nicaragua, Colombia, Spain, and Guatemala. Globalization requires innovation and adaptation, things that are easier for some countries to achieve than others. This book states that the current form of globalization allows the West to dominate the world market at the expense of other countries. This collection challenges the framework of globalization and provides practical advice for making globalization beneficial to all countries. This volume seeks to transform globalization into something productive for humanity as a whole. The nature and history of globalization is discussed as well as its impact on the Third World. New approaches to globalization are presented, as well as the rationale of these recommendations. The book shows that globalization can be reworked in order to include all countries, from the First to Third World.

Table of contents

• Introduction Jung Min Choi, John W. Murphy, and Manuel J. Caro
• 1 The Traditional Ontology of Development, History, and Globalization from Below John W. Murphy
• 2 What Is Globalization? Ambiguities of the Contemporary World Scene Vicente Berdayes
• 3 Globalization and Power: The Hidden Injuries of Consumerism Stephen Shapiro
• 4 Globalization and Resistance to the Market in Education Karen A. Callaghan
• 5 Does Dependency Theory Still Have Relevance in Latin America? William Guedes Cortezia
• 6 Vanishing Meaning, the Ideology of Value-Addition, and the Diffusion of Broadband Information Technology Eric Mark Kramer
• 7 Universalized Globalization and the Logics of Identity Algis Mickunas
• 8 The Limits and Alternatives to Democracy—Democracy in the Era of Globalization Alejandro Serrano Caldera
• 9 Nationhood, Quantum Humanism, and Latin America Carlos Largacha-Martínez and Manuel J. Caro
• 10 Toward an Embodied Global Ethic Luigi Esposito
• 11 Striking Back at Empire: A Postmodern Resistance to Neoliberalism and Globalization Jung Min Choi and Lawrence Byrne
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors