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

Lan-Hung Nora Chiang (Curatore)

John Lidstone (Curatore)

University Press of America, 2004

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.

• Curatore: Lan-Hung Nora Chiang, John Lidstone
• Editore: University Press of America
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 194 p.
• Dimensioni: 215 x 166 mm
• Peso: 263 gr.
• EAN: 9780761829515

Testo in English