Narratives of Globalization: Reflections on the Global Condition - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1783484438 ISBN 13: 9781783484430

Verlag: Rli, 2015

The collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at Rmit University to reflect on the lived-experience of globalization. It uses a narrative approach to explore how key concepts in the field of globalization studies relate to the experience of everyday life.

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Julian CH Lee is a Lecturer in Global Studies, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia. His research has focused on civil society, gender, sexuality and multiculturalism with an area focus on Malaysia. He has been an Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Kent, and maintains an interest in public engagement through regular columns in non-academic periodicals. His published academic work includes his sole-authored books Islamization and Activism in Malaysia (2010), and Policing Sexuality: Sex, Society, and the State (2011).

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Narratives of Globalization

Reflections on the Global Condition

By Julian C. H. Lee

Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd.

Foreword Joseph M. Siracusa, 
Acknowledgments, 
1 Introduction: Reflections on the Global Condition Julian C. H. Lee, 
2 On Culture and Hybridity: 'Gangnam Style' and the Inventiveness of Tradition Julian C. H. Lee, 
3 On Transculturation: Re-enacting and Remaking Latin American Dance and Music in Foreign Lands Elizabeth Kath, 
4 On Non-Places: Localizing the Global at Changi Airport's Terminal 3, Singapore Chris Hudson, 
5 On the Global Image: Globalization as a Visual-Ideological Phenomenon Tommaso Durante, 
6 On the World Wide Web: Disrupting Education in the Digital Age Debra Bateman, 
7 On Neoliberalism and Welfare: Payday Lending and Commodifying Social Provisioning Marcus Banks and Greg Marston, 
8 On Language and Interculturality: Teaching Languages and Cultures for a Global World Chantal Crozet, 
9 On Diversity and Language: My Route through Different Cultures, Languages, and Ideologies Lynne N. Li, 
10 On a Global Moral Economy: Young People and Engaging with Others in Need Rebekah Farrell, 
11 On Universal Human Rights: Universality and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Ian Howie, 
12 On Global Security: International Law, Use-of-Force and Hegemony Aiden Warren, 
13 Afterword Julian C. H. Lee, 
References, 
Index, 
About the Contributors,

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Reflections on the Global Condition

Julian C. H. Lee

This book has its beginnings in the office of Professor Joseph Siracusa. 'Philosophers used to be concerned about what it meant to be human', he said during one of our conversations there. 'But now', he continued, 'the question is, what does it mean to be human in the age of globalization?'

His question points to the way that our lives are fundamentally intertwined with people, entities and processes of which we often have little understanding, about which we frequently have little awareness, and over which we often feel that we have little influence. In our attempts to know ourselves, his question leads us towards the fact that now, more than ever, this cannot be done without understanding ourselves as part of a globalized world.

But the word 'globalization' is now commonplace. What globalization means has been and remains indistinct and dependent on context. Siracusa notes that globalization 'is a hotly contested term. There are all kinds of encyclopedias and handbooks on what globalization is' (RMIT 2014). The historian Paul Battersby adds that it is a broad concept that 'means many different things to many different people' (ibid.). With such diversity being the case, the reader will forgive us for not confining its meaning by providing a definition, instead allowing the meanings of the term to come through in the course of this book's chapters. As the anthropologist Eve Darian-Smith writes, there is value 'in the process of arguing about what the field of global studies is and could be, rather than coming up with any definitive answer' (2015: 165).

That the world is 'global' or 'globalized' is also now taken for granted. In the same way as we are unable to perceive an aroma when we spend too long in its midst, a problem in thinking about ourselves in a global context is that 'globalization' is now so omnipresent that we can sometimes fail to detect its influence, even though its effects are all around us, i

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