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Manfred B. Steger - Globalisms, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Globalisms

Facing the Populist Challenge

Av Manfred B. Steger

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Rather than reaching the “end of ideology” predicted only three decades ago, we find ourselves in the throes of an intensifying ideological struggle over the meaning and direction of globalization. Noted scholar Manfred B. Steger introduces readers to the clashing political belief systems of our time: market globalism, justice globalism, and religious globalism. He shows how these “globalisms” have developed and how their competing ideas articulate and legitimize particular political agendas. He focuses especially on the ways this battle of ideas has been extended through the unexpectedly powerful surge of antiglobalist populism, an ideological contender that stands in tension to pluralist values of liberal democracy. Explaining the origins, impacts, and consequences of the recent populist challenge, Steger considers the future prospects for the established globalisms in what promises to be a tumultuous decade—as global problems such as climate change, pandemics, transnational terrorism, financial crises, and cyber-warfare threaten humanity’s collective future.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-09-27
  • Mått: 152 x 227 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 331 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Globalization
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Upplaga: 4
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781538129456
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Manfred B. Steger is professor of sociology at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and Global Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the US State Department and as an adviser to the PBS television series Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. He is the author or editor of twenty-seven books on globalization and social and political theory, including The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (2008); Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (2017); and Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (with Paul James, 2019).

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In this new edition of Globalisms, Steger (Univ. of Hawai’i at Manoa) rejects “end of ideology” hypotheses, instead viewing the current era as a “teeming battlefield of clashing ideologies" (p. 5). His analysis centers on the dominant ideology, market globalism, and its three major antagonists: justice globalism, religious (jihadist) globalism, and anti-globalist populism. If market globalism advances economic freedom and growth as its core values, the others extol, respectively, social and environmental justice, religious faith, and reactionary, authoritarian nationalism. Market globalism seemed incontestable, even inevitable, in the 1990s, but events such as the 1999 anti-WTO protests, the 9/11 attacks and subsequent terrorist outbreaks, and the 2008 financial collapse and ensuing backlash against runaway inequality (compounded by the perceived erosion of national identities) have given rise to the opposing perspectives. Steger concludes by considering three possible scenarios: the anti-globalists consolidate power with effects similar to those suffered in the 1930s and 1940s, reformed market globalists are able to rebound, or a prolonged stalemate ensues. Occasional esoteric terminology does not detract from the vitally important issues illuminated in this seminal work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels.

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