The Challenges of Globalization: Cultures in Transition in the Pacific-Asia Region (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761829515)

Although the products of globalization are far from new, globalization as a process in the Pacific-Asian Region is both dynamic and problematic. Pacific-Asia globalization outcomes at present include: intensification of changes linked to the influences of capitalism; information technology and innovative technological systems; migration, transnationalism, and refugees; tourism for those with newly apparent disposable incomes; altered philosophical and religious perspectives, including the new fundamentalism; paradigm shifts within indigenous languages and cultures; lifestyles that embrace and/or disengage from all of the globalizing factors listed above; and others.

The Challenges of Globalization defines globalization as "supra-national ideas and processes that cross national borders with impunity." Such "ideas and processes" may appear to possess a will of their own, fostering closer links between cultures, societies, and economies. But, do they? How do individuals, communities, and nation-states actually respond to the forces of globalization? This book explores globalization within the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and education.

Author: Lan-Hung Nora Chiang
ISBN-10: 0761829512
ISBN-13: 9780761829515
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2004
Pages: 194
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.64w x 0.56d