GLOBALIZATION: The Reader

“Globalization: The Reader” brings together the key texts on the most pressing and pervasive issue of our times.

The 21st Century, already heralded as “the global century”, has opened with battles being fought for control of the global media and control of “global culture” itself.

As the market economy expands to map the globe and as society becomes a global rather than a national concept, the nature of culture itself is changing. The engines of this change are the global media, changing the ways we communicate, travel, consume, understand space and time, make money, make love, make war, identify with others, identify ourselves, fight against the machine…

The Reader opens with a broad introduction to the history of globalization and the major contemporary debates, concepts and theorists. The main body of the book comprises over 100 extracts from the world’s leading commentators on society, culture, media and technology, and political economy.

John Beynon is Reader and David Dunkerley is Professor, both in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan, UK.