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Title: Globalization by Zygmunt Bauman ISBN: 0-231-11429-X Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Spatial Division of Global Power
Comment: The process of socio-economic reform in the free-market era, facilitated under the direction of private enterprise, has created an international dichotomy in the political realm between the mobility of capital (global) and the immobility of labor (local). Essentially, Bauman argues that the privatization of the global economy, although gradually, has led to the erosion of the public sphere and a rise in absentee landlordism. In a sociological sense, the inculcation of the consumerist ethos, harnessed as a means of fueling the burgeoning private sector, amounts to the de facto division of global consciousness into two categories. For the author, the tourist and the vagabond, people with the financial ability to free themselves from the grips of spatial locality, and those who aspire to become free in the former sense, epitomize the cultural, economic, and political expectations of the new global elite and the local underclass. Bauman views the increased use of criminal incarceration and the conservative appeal to "public" law and order as an outgrowth of this spatial dichotomy, and the increase in urban criminal activity as a symptom of this new polarization. In referring to this issue as the "criminalization of poverty," Bauman suggests that the global elite have reconfigured the structure of power in the world market, since they are no longer bound by practical barriers, namely governmental restrictions and national boundaries. The tourists have effectively withdrawn from their historical obligation to local communities, while the underclass have been forced to contend with their plight (unemployment and economic insecurity) in the tumult of urban ghettos on an individual basis. Escape, slippage, and avoidance, according to the author, have become the preferred method of interaction with hostile localities, namely labor unions and unstable markets. Thus, the seat or seats of power, within the structure of the post-Fordist economy, have become more abstract and intangible, since capital mobility, capital flight, and financial investment are temporary, nomadic, and spatially diffused. Thus, contrary to the optimism of many free-market advocates and technocrats, the introduction of the technological/communicational age has not ushered in an era of international equality and access to the political sphere. In contrast, an asymmetrical structure of power relations now characterizes the global milieu and economic governance. Limited accountability, contemporarily speaking, has redefined the role of the business elite to their workers, communities, and consumers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Globalization
Comment: The world renown sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, illustrates extremely well the dynamics of globalization on civic society and its breakdown thereof due to mass consumption, the ease of ability of communication, and the inability of binding corporations to rules of conduct. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the grim realities of globalization for the nation and locality.
Rating: 1
Summary: Globalization- In Greek!
Comment: This book was more worthless than the paper it was printed on to someone with a limited understanding of globalization and anyone with less than a Masters in English Grammar. Globalization by Zygmunt Bauman was a fascinating tale of how globalization works and how its problems can be rectified.
This book was completely difficult to understand and was much like swallowing a big pill. Every other word was long and could have been easily replaced with a smaller word to create a more fluent understanding of his thought processes.
The author uses a lot of references that one cannot understand simply from the print of his book, but necessitates a run to the Internet for understanding. I sat next to my computer the entire time I read this book to get through it. It was completely nonsensical work which needed much revision. It could have been a great book, if the author realized that everyone who reads his book would not have a complete grasp on the whole idea of globalization. I can not lay all the blame on the author, as the editor, and publisher should have done that themselves.
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Title: Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman ISBN: 0745624103 Publisher: Polity Pr Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World by Zygmunt Bauman, Zygmut Bauman ISBN: 0745626351 Publisher: Polity Pr Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Latin America in the World Economy: Mercantile Colonialism to Global Capitalism by Frederick Stirton Weaver, Ron Chilcote ISBN: 0813338093 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Society Under Siege by Zygmunt Bauman ISBN: 0745629857 Publisher: Polity Pr Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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