Globalization East and West

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals. Dr Habibul Khondker is Professor in Humanities at Zayed University, Dubai.

A wide-ranging, significant contributionGöran TherbornProfessor of Sociology, Cambridge University According to Turner and Khondker, globalization is an all-encompassing process by which humanity has entered a qualitatively distinct civilizational stage. Their [this] book offers a comprehensive, systematic and powerful account of the new world we are facing and will serve as an essential basis for scholarly innovations urgently required in all social sciences. This is a highly revealing yet balanced analysis of globalization that will intellectually enrich both academic and general readersProfessor Chang Kyung-SupSeoul National University A lively, well-informed, and accessible guide through the dynamics and complexities of globalization. This volume shows why sociology rather than economics offers more powerful and far more subtle ways of understanding global trends and global crisesRobert HoltonProfessor of Sociology at Trinity College, DublinChallenges the idea that globalisation is the same as Westernisation, imperialism or Americanisation. The direction of global processes is always changing, but crucially this is not a one-way street. Far too little attention has been paid to the fact that the influence of Asian culture on the West is at least as great as, if not more so, in the first decade of the 21st century as that of the West on the EastKen Smith, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Bucks New UniversityTimes Higher Education (THE)

• Foreword by Roland RobertsonIntroduction: Prospects for a New Sociology of GlobalizationConceptualizing GlobalizationStructures and Processes of GlobalizationGlobalization and the Nation StateGlobalization, Culture and CosmopolitanismWorld Religions and Fundamentalism Migration and TransnationalismMedical GlobalizationNew Wars and Terrorism: Globalization of Militarism and ViolenceGlobalization of Disasters and Disaster ResponseGlobalization, Citizenship and Human RightsMulticulturalism, Social Diversity and GlobalizationReligion, Media and Popular CultureConclusions: Perpetual Peace or Perpetual War?