1st Edition

Globalization & Ideology A Global Studies Perspective

By Manfred Steger Copyright 2018
872 Pages
by Routledge

872 Pages
by Routledge

This text provides the reader with a transdisciplinary, global studies perspective of the political significance of globalization as articulated in today’s three main globalisms: market globalism; justice globalism; and religious globalism. Globalization and Ideology: A Global Studies Perspective brings together subjective and objective aspects of globalization that are usually treated... Read more

1. Introduction: Reassessing political ideologies: a global studies perspective  PART I Globalisms in the 21st century  2. Market globalism after the Great Recession  3. Mapping the justice globalism of the World Social Forum  4. Religious globalisms unbound PART II Globalisms and Empires  5. Monologue of Empire versus global dialogue of cultures: the branding of *American values*  6. Post-Americanism and Chinese Empire  7. Obama, national populism, and the global imaginary PART III Globalizing ideas, spaces, and images  8. Global ideologies and urban landscapes: toward a new research agenda  9. Constructing the global imaginary: the ideological power of global mega-events  10. Beyond twitterism? justice globalism at Cairo*s Tahrir Square

Biography

Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Director of the Globalism Research Centre at RMIT University, Australia. In addition, he is Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i, and an affiliated graduate faculty member with the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa.

Deane E. Neubauer is currently Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he has served as a Professor of Political Science since 1970. Professor Neubauer is also the Executive Director of the Globalization Research Network.