Rather than reaching the “end of ideology” predicted only three decades ago, we find ourselves in the throes of an intensifying ideological struggle over the meaning and direction of globalization. Noted scholar Manfred B. Steger introduces readers to the clashing political belief systems of our time: market globalism, justice globalism, and religious globalism. He shows how these “globalisms” have developed and how their competing ideas articulate and legitimize particular political agendas. He focuses especially on the ways this battle of ideas has been extended through the unexpectedly powerful surge of antiglobalist populism, an ideological contender that stands in tension to pluralist values of liberal democracy. Explaining the origins, impacts, and consequences of the recent populist challenge, Steger considers the future prospects for the established globalisms in what promises to be a tumultuous decade—as global problems such as climate change, pandemics, transnational terrorism, financial crises, and cyber-warfare threaten humanity’s collective future.
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Providing a comprehensive overview of the changing ideological landscape in the age of globalization, Manfred Steger explores the clashing political belief systems of our time: market globalism, justice globalism, and religious globalism. He considers their prospects in light of the growing populist challengers in the tumultuous decade to come.
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Preface Acknowledgments 1 Ideology and the Meaning of Globalization 2 The Academic Debate over Globalization 3 The Dominance of Market Globalism in the 1990s 4 First-Wave Challengers in the 2000s: Justice Globalism and Religious Globalism 5 Second-Wave Challengers in the 2010s: Antiglobalist Populism 6 Globalisms in the 2020s: Three Future Scenarios Notes Guide to Further Reading Index About the Author
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In this newly revised edition, Steger examines the relatively rapid rise of national-populism and its anti-globalization rhetoric. Anti-globalist populism is emerging as the latest ideological force to counter the hegemony of neoliberal market globalism. While it is too early to predict its cumulative impact, Steger proposes possible scenarios of the populist backlash. This is an important and timely analysis of an increasingly hostile ideological global battle—a disturbing but essential read.
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ISBN
9781538129449
Publisert
2019-10-01
Utgave
4. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
503 gr
Høyde
239 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
240

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Biographical note

Manfred B. Steger is professor of sociology at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and Global Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the US State Department and as an adviser to the PBS television series Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. He is the author or editor of twenty-seven books on globalization and social and political theory, including The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (2008); Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (2017); and Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (with Paul James, 2019).