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" Dalai Lama urges young people to embrace globalization at peace conference in Denver " by Case Squires - Associated Press North County Times, September 17, 2006
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/09/17/news/nation/18_04_119_16_06.txt
The Dalai Lama urged thousands of teenagers at a world peace conference Saturday to embrace globalization and accept people from all countries as neighbors and collaborators, not rivals. |
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Hannerz,
Ulf. Transnational Connections: Culture, People,
Places. London: Routledge, 1996
Transnational Connections provides a lucid
account of culture in an age of globalization,
arguing that, in an increasingly interconnected
world, national understandings of culture
have become insufficient. He explores the
implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance
cultural flows for established notions of
"the local", "community,"
"nation" and "modernity,"
engaging not only theoretical debates about
culture and globalization but issues of
how we think and live today (Amazon-book
description) |
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Heymann,
Jody. Forgotten families : ending the growing
crisis confronting children and working parents
in the global economy Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press, 2006
In the last half-century, radical changes
have rippled through the workplace and the
home, from Boston to Bombay-- changes that
have dramatically affected how men and women
can care for their families. In the face of
rapid globalization, these changes affect
us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves
to addressing working and social conditions
within our own borders without simultaneously
addressing them on a global scale. This is,
however, a daunting task, and few have attempted
to bridge either the gaps between families
in different countries or the rifts between
families, employers, and governments around
the world. This is the goal of Forgotten Families:
Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children
and Working Parents in the Global Economy
. Based on over a thousand in-depth interviews
and survey data from more than 55,000 families
spanning five continents, Forgotten Families
is the first truly global account of how the
changing conditions of work threaten children,
women and men, and the infirm. It addresses
problems faced by working families in industrialized
and developing countries alike, touching on
issues of child health and development, barriers
to parents getting and keeping jobs, and problems
families confront daily and in times of crisis (Oxford University Press web description). |
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Wolf,
Martin. Why Globalization Works (Yale Nota
Bene). Yale University Press; 2New Ed edition,
2005
The author, a Financial Times editor, makes
a conventional economist's argument for globalization
that is not likely to convince many skeptics.
His faith is that growth and everything else
good comes from "the market," while
any problems with globalization must be the
fault of governments. Wolf doesn't consider
that economic processes redistribute power
and therefore transform politics and the possibilities
of government action. Like so many economists,
he analyzes primarily aggregate statistics:
gray averages. For example, using aggregate
figures he argues that workers in rich countries
are paid more because they are much more productive
than workers in poor countries are. Thus high-paid
workers need not fear that competition from
low-paid workers will undermine their economic
security. The reason, he explains, is that
workers in developed countries work, on average,
with far less capital per worker. While this
is true in aggregate, for a particular transnational
firm deciding whether to locate a new factory
in Shanghai or Chicago, the difference in
productivity will rarely be as great as the
wage differential. Therefore, as long as other
costs and risks do not overwhelm the benefit
of cheaper labor, there is a long-term tendency
for investment and jobs to flow toward low-wage
countries. Wolf neglects the profound consequences
of relative labor immobility (because of immigration
restrictions and cultural barriers) compared
with the mobility of products, many services
and capital, one of the characteristic features
of contemporary globalization (From Publishers
Weekly) |
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Globalization
Debates
http://www.sociology.emory.edu/globalization/debates.html
Globalization is a contentious process. Ever
since the term was first used to make sense
of large-scale changes, scholars have debated
its meaning and use. As the term became a
globally popular buzzword, it served to crystallize
disagreements about the direction of change
in the world at large. By the end of the twentieth
century, the meaning and merits of globalization
were contested in the media and in the streets.
Intellectual debate blended with political
conflict. In the years to come, debates and
conflicts surrounding globalization will increasingly
affect the processes captured by the term. |
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Global
Issues
http://www.globalissues.org/
Site looks into global issues that affect
everyone and aims to show how most issues
are inter-related. There are over 550 articles
on this site, mostly written by author Anup
Shah. The issues discussed range from trade,
poverty and globalization, to human rights,
geopolitics, the environment, and much more.
Spread over these articles, there are over
7,000 links to external articles, web sites,
reports and analysis to help provide credence
to the arguments made on this web site. |
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University
of California Globalization Research Center-Africa
http://www.globalization-africa.org/index.php
The UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa
(GRCA) conducts research on the dynamics and
effects of globalization, with particular
emphasis on impacts within Africa. The overall
aim of the Center is to engage in research
on ways global forces impact upon African
societies; the ways in which African societies
have an impact upon the globalization process;
and the comparative, cross national and cross
cultural comparison of global processes as
they relate to Africa. This work is policy
relevant, and its results are to be widely
distributed to educators, educational institutions,
policy makers and the public at large. Our
intention is to develop an institution open
to collaboration with and input from different
disciplines in academia, and to partnership
with other research endeavors in both the
public and private sectors (Mission Statement). |
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City Life
Series-Bullfrog Films (2002)
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/clso.html
“City Life” is the second series
of “Life” documenting the effects
of globalization on individuals and communities
around the world. This twenty-two part series
of 27-minute programs examines globalization's
effects on cities and their inhabitants. In
the summer of 2001, world leaders met in New
York City to discuss the progress made since
the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements
five years earlier in Istanbul. The agreement
reached in Turkey set out the specific goals
of providing adequate shelter for all and
achieving sustainable development of communities.
The consensus in New York was that there has
been a huge gap between policy formulation
and implementation. Globalization coupled
with a lack of action by world leaders is
causing an ever-widening gap in wealth, separating
the rich from the impoverished. Poverty is
increasing in cities dramatically. People
from rural areas all over the world are moving
to cities at an alarming rate because rural
economies can no longer sustain them. The
lure of opportunity and employment draw them
to the cities, further exacerbating a global
problem.
According to Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director
of Habitat (the UN Center for Human Settlements)
globalization is making the 21st century the
century of cities. "The challenge now,"
she says, "is how to make cities better
for a majority of the people." |
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"Small Screen,
Smaller World" by William Mougayar (11 October
2002)
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=204
Article includes a flash media presentation, produced
by YaleGlobal to show how the globalization
of the supply chain has dramatically lowered
the price of television worldwide. |
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