Abstract
Until recently, discussions about globalization remained mainly of scholarly interest. In the globalization literature the word ‘globalization’ is associated with divergent, often contradictory meanings. Scholars point to the economic logic of globalization. Others underline a complex phenomenon involving a number of causes - technological, socio-cultural - that have replaced nationally separate social life with transnational, integrated modes of society. Around 2015, the word ‘globalization’ made a thrust into popular discourse, remarkably through anti-globalization rhetoric surrounding the Brexit vote - Britain’s referendum vote to leave the European Union. Shortly after, anti-globalization rhetoric steered by Donald J. Trump also shaped populist insurgent politics in the United States in 2016 that ultimately won him the presidency. In popular discourse as well, the word ‘globalization’ is connected with a vista of connotations and is linked economic process as well as with contradictory and often contested local themes about identity, territory, immigration, and cultural conflict. This paper draws out the recent themes or meanings of globalization as they played out in different variations across spatial locations and underlines how the discourse about globalization is poly centric and susceptible to turns in world affairs.
Presenters
Vandana Pednekar MagalPrinciple Senior Lecturer, Institute of International Business, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Georgia, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2019 Special Focus - The "End of History" 30 Years On: Globalization Then and Now
KEYWORDS
Globalization Nationalism
Digital Media
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