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The Challenges of Globalization: Cultures in Transition in the Pacific-Asia Region - Softcover

 
9780761829515: The Challenges of Globalization: Cultures in Transition in the Pacific-Asia Region
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761829512 ISBN 13: 9780761829515
Publisher: University Press of America, 2004

Synopsis

Although the products of globalization are far from new, globalization as a process in the Pacific-Asian Region is both dynamic and problematic. Pacific-Asia globalization outcomes at present include: intensification of changes linked to the influences of capitalism; information technology and innovative technological systems; migration, transnationalism, and refugees; tourism for those with newly apparent disposable incomes; altered philosophical and religious perspectives, including the new fundamentalism; paradigm shifts within indigenous languages and cultures; lifestyles that embrace and/or disengage from all of the globalizing factors listed above; and others.

The Challenges of Globalization defines globalization as supra-national ideas and processes that cross national borders with impunity. Such ideas and processes may appear to possess a will of their own, fostering closer links between cultures, societies, and economies. But, do they? How do individuals, communities, and nation-states actually respond to the forces of globalization? This book explores globalization within the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and education.

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About the Author

Kirk A. Johnson is associate professor of sociology and African American studies at the University of Mississippi.

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Publisher
University Press of America
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0761829512
ISBN 13 
9780761829515
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
194
Editor
Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, John Lidstone, Rebecca A. Stephenson