The globalization of nothing 2 /

The Globalization of Nothing is back in a revised and updated Second Edition. As before, this book is structured around four sets of concepts addressing the issues of: "places/non-places," "things/non-things," "people/non-people," and "services/non-services."...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ritzer, George
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, c2007
Thousand Oaks, CA : c2007
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : 2007
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : ©2007
Thousand Oaks : [2007]
Edition:Rev. & completely updated ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Globalization : a new conceptualization
  • Nothing (and something) : another new conceptualization
  • Meet the nullities : non-places, non-things, non-people, and non-services
  • Nothing : caveats and clarifications
  • The globalization of nothing
  • Theorizing glocalization and grobalization
  • The globalization of consumer culture and global opposition to it
  • Loss amidst monumental abundance and global strategies for coping with it
  • Globalization : a new conceptualization
  • Nothing (and something) : another new conceptualization
  • Meet the nullities : non-places, non-things, non-people, and non-services
  • Nothing : caveats and clarifications
  • The globalization of nothing
  • Theorizing glocalization and grobalization
  • The globalization of consumer culture and global opposition to it
  • Loss amidst monumental abundance and strategies for coping with it
  • Globalization : a new conceptualization
  • Nothing (and something) : another new conceptualization
  • Meet the nullities : nonplaces, nonthings, nonpeople, and nonservices
  • Nothing : caveats and clarifications
  • The globalization of nothing
  • Theorizing glocalization and grobalization
  • The globalization of consumer culture- and global opposition to it
  • Loss amidst monumental abundance- and strategies for coping with it
  • 1 Globalization : a new conceptualization
  • 2. Nothing (and something) : another new conceptualization
  • 3. Meet the nullities : nonplaces, nonthings, nonpeople, and nonservices
  • 4. Nothing : caveats and clarifications
  • 5. The globalization of nothing
  • 6. Theorizing glocalization and grobalization
  • 7. The globalization of consumer culture - and global opposition to it
  • 8. Loss amidst monumental abundance - and global strategies for coping with it.
  • 1 Globalization : a new conceptualization
  • 2. Nothing (and something) : another new conceptualization
  • 3. Meet the nullities : nonplaces, nonthings, nonpeople, and nonservices
  • 4. Nothing : caveats and clarifications
  • 5. The globalization of nothing
  • 6. Theorizing glocalization and grobalization
  • 7. The globalization of consumer culture - and global opposition to it
  • 8. Loss amidst monumental abundance - and global strategies for coping with it.