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is a very broad concept and has many facets, but in the discussion on globalization, Steger means it to refer to “the symbolic construction, articulation, and dissemination of meaning.” Topics under this heading include discussion about the development of a global culture, or lack thereof, the role
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According to Steger, there are three main types of globalisms (ideologies that endow the concept of globalization with particular values and meanings): market globalism, justice globalism, and religious globalisms. Steger defines them as follows:
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Topics of ecological globalization include population growth, access to food, worldwide reduction in biodiversity, the gap between rich and poor as well as between the global North and global South, human-induced climate change, and global
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Economic globalization is the intensification and stretching of economic interrelations around the globe. It encompasses such things as the emergence of a new global economic order, the internationalization of trade and finance,
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struggle against both market globalism and justice globalism as they seek to mobilize a religious values and beliefs that are thought to be under severe attack by the forces of secularism and consumerism.
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is organized around the same dimensions, though the ecological is not listed in the title. This set of categories relates to the four-domain approach of circles of social life, and
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Political globalization is the intensification and expansion of political interrelations around the globe. Aspects of political globalization include the modern-
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constructs an alternative vision of globalization based on egalitarian ideals of global solidarity and distributive justice.
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These ideologies of globalization (or globalisms) then relate to broader imaginaries and ontologies.
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Cultural globalization is the intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe.
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transnational corporations, and the enhanced role of international economic institutions.
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of the media in shaping our identities and desires, and the globalization of languages.
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ancient Buddhist parable of blind scholars and their first encounter with an elephant
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seeks to endow ‘globalization’ with free-market norms and neoliberal meanings.
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Globalization and Economy, Vol. 2: Global Finance and the New Global Economy
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Globalization and Economy, Vol. 3: Global Economic Regimes and Institutions
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Globalization and Politics, Vol. 1: Global Political and Legal Governance
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Globalization and Economy, Vol. 1: Global Markets and Capitalism
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system and its changing place in today's world, the role of
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Globalization and Culture, Vol. 3: Global-Local Consumption
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Steger compares the current study of globalization to the
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Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture
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Globalization and Economy, Vol. 4: Globalizing Labour
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Index

Manfred Steger
Global Studies
Global Transformations
Circles of Sustainability
ancient Buddhist parable of blind scholars and their first encounter with an elephant
Economic globalization
Political globalization
nation state
global governance
Cultural globalization
Internet
Culture
Anthropocene
Global issue
environmental degradation
Cultural globalization
Globalism
Globalization
James, Paul
Globalization and Economy, Vol. 1: Global Markets and Capitalism
James, Paul
Szeman, Imre
Globalization and Culture, Vol. 3: Global-Local Consumption
James, Paul
Soguk, Nevzat
Globalization and Politics, Vol. 1: Global Political and Legal Governance
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"Levels of Subjective Globalization: Ideologies, Imaginaries, Ontologies"

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