Phenomenon of Globalization

The term globalization arouses different feelings. Some people regard it with fear; others consider it the incarnation of a new time - a time when the relations between different cultures and parts of the world intensify increasingly. Consequently, the term is not only used to explain highly diverse phenomena but also to shed light on the alleged darkness of a world in change. In this collective volume, scientists from different academic disciplines and regions of the world wanted to make available their perceptions of this ample term to a broader audience. Twenty contributions comprising nine academic disciplines depict the process of the growing together of the world via different approaches. Apart from the contributions from historians, the reader will find articles from the fields of philosophy, architecture, economics, sociology, political science, journalism, anthropology, and law. This is to offer the reader a small insight into the variety of research about globalization and may contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon that is treated differently in diverse academic disciplines and different parts of the world.

Contents: Andreas Exenberger: Introduction: The Phenomenon of Globalization: A first Orientation - Christoph Mertl: Globalizations, Globalities, Global Histories: Some theoretical corner stones - Philipp Strobl: Defining the «Indefinable»: World Cities as Indicators for the Process of Globalization - Bianca Winkler: Globalization and Global History: Two Sides of a Coin? - Makiko Ruike: City museums in the age of globalization: Representation of metropolitan diversity - Lucía Alicia Aguerre: (Un)Free-flowing: Globalization and its relation with the phenomenon of migration - María G. Navarro: From System of Exchange to Globalization - Markus Gruber: Organizational Communication in a Postmodern Environment - Jasna Cizler: Cities and Architecture in a Time of Globalization - Ana Tajder: The Role of Globalization in the Process of Singlezation - Mattew Okeyim/Innocent Okoronye: Unequal Globalization: North and South Divide - Manfred Kohler: The Council of European Municipalities and Regions - Sarra Moneir Ahmed: Who's Afraid of Twitter?! The Egyptian Revolution going Global - Dawn Kremslehner-Haas: The Impact of Market Globalism on Urban African American Communities - Sina Ansari Eshlaghi: The Impact of Globalization on Iranian Middle Class Consumption Attitudes - Özge Subasi: Creative Portfolio of Viennese-Turkishness Globalisation and Design Anthropology - Kristina Andelic: International Economic Law as the Answer to Globalization - Christian Wlaschütz: The Globalization of International Human Rights Norms through Transitional Justice and Its Critics - Sabariah Mohamed Salleh: Westernization and Malaysian Television - Friederike Ruth Winkler: Jewish Immigration into the Land of Israel/Palestine during the 19th Century.