Globalization with a Human Face -

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This collection of essays reflects a wide array of realities and experiences of people from different areas of the world, including England, Nicaragua, Colombia, Spain, and Guatemala. Globalization requires innovation and adaptation, things that are easier for some countries to achieve than others. This book states that the current form of globalization allows the West to dominate the world market at the expense of other countries. This collection challenges the framework of globalization and provides practical advice for making globalization beneficial to all countries.

This volume seeks to transform globalization into something productive for humanity as a whole. The nature and history of globalization is discussed as well as its impact on the Third World. New approaches to globalization are presented, as well as the rationale of these recommendations. The book shows that globalization can be reworked in order to include all countries, from the First to Third World....

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Introduction by Jung Min Choi, John W. Murphy, and Manuel J. Caro
The Traditional Ontology of Development, History, and Globalization From Below by John W. Murphy
What is Globalization? Ambiguities of the Contemporary World Scene by Vincente Berdayes
Globalization & Power: The Hidden Injuries of Consumerism by Stephen Shapiro
Globalization & Resistance to the Market in Education by Karen A. Callaghan
Does Dependency Theory Still Have Relevance in Latin America? by William Guedes Cortezia
Vanishing Meaning, the Ideology of Value-Addition, and the Diffusion of Broadband Information Technology by Eric Mark Kramer
Universalized Globalization and the Logistics of Identity by Algis Mickunas
The Limits and Alternatives to Democracy-- Democracy in the Era of Globalization by Alejandro Serrano Caldera
Nationhood, Quantum Humanism, and Latin America by Carlos Largacha-Martinez and Manuel J. Caro
Towards an Embodied Global Ethic by Luigi Esposito
Striking Back at Empire: A Postmodern Resistance to Neoliberalism and Globalization by Jung Min Choi and Lawrence Byrne
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