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CHAPTER 2 GLOBALIZATION II SOME BASIC ISSUES, DEBATES, AND CONTROVERSIES1
ОглавлениеIs There Such a Thing as Globalization?
Is it Globalization, Transnationalization, or Regionalization?
If There is Such a Thing as Globalization, When did it Begin?
Globalization or Globalizations?
Does Globalization Hop Rather than Flow?
If There is Such a Thing as Globalization, is it Inexorable?
Does Globaphilia or Globaphobia Have the Upper Hand?
What, if Anything, Can Be Done About Globalization?
Necessary Actions are Already UnderwayMore, Perhaps Much More, Needs to be Done
Chapter 1 presented an overarching and integrated perspective on globalization as well as at least some details on a few of its (innumerable) elements. However, we have proceeded to a large extent as if globalization in general, as well as the particular perspective on it offered here (with its focus on flows and barriers, processes and structures), is not in dispute. Indeed, the entire field of globalization studies is riddled with differences of opinion and great debates (Dean and Ritzer 2012; Ritzer and Atalay 2010; Zürn and de Wilde 2016). In this chapter we present some of these differences. The goal is to offer a more nuanced sense of globalization.
We begin with an issue that, from the tenor of the discussion in the first chapter, would appear to be a non-issue. That is the question of whether or not there is some set of developments that can legitimately be called globalization. While the prior discussion, as well as the reality of this book and its title, indicates that the answer to that question will, in the end, be in the affirmative, it is worth reviewing the debate over the very existence of globalization.
