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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-10019994752X

ISBN-139780199947522

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Number of Pages416 Pages

Publication NameGlobalization : a Reader for Writers

LanguageEnglish

SubjectSociology / General, Globalization, Composition & Creative Writing

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorMaria Jerskey

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight100.9 Oz

Item Length5.5 in

Item Width8.4 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2013-038815

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal303.48/2

Table Of Content1. 1. Being and Becoming Global"In Zarafshan." The Morning News"Globalization: Two Visions of the Future of Humanity""The Shattered Mirror," Excerpt from Cosmpolitanism"A Mickey Mouse Approach to Globalization" Yale Global Online"The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food." Good2. Identity and Place"Lonely Places." Excerpt from Falling Off the Map"The Last Inuit of Quebec." The Smart Set"A Gentle Madness." Granta"In Search of Black Identity in Uganda" Glimpse"All the Disappearing Islands." Mother Jones3. Body, Mind, and Spirit"Birth" The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures"Do some cultures have their own ways of going mad?" Boston Globe"Pursuing the Science of Happiness" Oregon Humanities"Plasticize Me" Guernica"Why Americans Won't Do Dirty Jobs" Business Week"You Can Take It with You" The Smart Set4. Languages in Contact"How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?" Edge"Death by Monoculture." University of Cambridge Research"Passing the Test." World Policy Journal"The New Language Landscape." The Hindu"Operation Mind Your Language." Open"The Church of Please and Thank You." This Magazine5. Communication and Technology"A Small World After All?" The Wilson Quarterly"Can You Hear Us Now?" World Ark"The New Social Media and the Arab Spring." Oxford Islamic Studies Online"The White Savior Industrial Complex." The Atlantic"Territory Jam." Places"The Accidental Bricoleurs." N+16. Earning and Spending"The New Grand Tour." The Economist"Haiti Doesn't Need Your Old T-Shirt." Foreign Policy"How Oliberté, the Anti-TOMS, Makes Shoes and Jobs in Africa." Good"The Enchanted Bylanes." Open"The Long and Winding Road." More Intelligent Life"The Luxury Frontier." Wall Street Journal7. Gender Matters"The Startling Plight of China's Leftover Ladies." Foreign Policy"Leopard-Print Headscarves: Wearing the Veil in Banda Aceh, Indonesia" Glimpse"Reinventing the Veil." Financial Times"Body-Building in Afghanistan." Men's Health"Killing Emos, and the Future, in Iraq." Al Jazeera"The Invisible Migrant Man: Questioning Gender Privileges." Open Democracy8. Media and Culture"Beyond Mullahs and Persian Party People: The Invisibility of Being Iranian on TV." Jadaliyya"Revolution in a Can." Foreign Policy"You Think Hollywood Is Rough? Welcome to the Chaos, Excitement and Danger of Nollywood." TechCrunch"Voice of the Streets: The Birth of a Hip-Hop Movement." World Hip Hop Market"Fading Lights in Mumbai." More Intelligent Life"So You Think They Can Break-Dance?" Salon9. Change and Transformation"The World's New Numbers." The Wilson Quarterly"If It's Tuesday, It Must Be the Taliban." Outside"Zimbabwe" Guernica"The Last Famine." Foreign Policy"It's Time for the Turkana To Leave Their Wastelands And Settle Down." Daily Nation"More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World." Foreign PolicyAppendix: Researching and Writing About Globalization

SynopsisRead. Write. Oxford.Using vibrant, challenging, and diverse selections, Globalization: A Reader for Writers invites students to explore what globalization means not just to their everyday lives but to the collective future of the world. The writers, scholars, artists, journalists, and activists represented in this reader transcend globalization as a theme, challenging students to see globalization as a term that they need to define for themselves. This reader presents a more open-ended, less determined perspective than the "West and the Rest" agenda by offering articles that are personal and local yet also engaging to a broader global audience. Developed for the freshman composition course, Globalization: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and scientific reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required to participate effectively in an academic discourse about globalization.Globalization: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives., Read. Write. Oxford. Using vibrant, challenging, and diverse selections, Globalization: A Reader for Writers invites students to explore what globalization means not just to their everyday lives but to the collective future of the world. The writers, scholars, artists, journalists, and activists represented in this reader transcend globalization as a theme, challenging students to see globalization as a term that they need to define for themselves. This reader presents a more open-ended, less determined perspective than the "West and the Rest" agenda by offering articles that are personal and local yet also engaging to a broader global audience. Developed for the freshman composition course, Globalization: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and scientific reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills required to participate effectively in an academic discourse about globalization. Globalization: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives., Using vibrant, challenging, and diverse selections, Globalization: A Reader for Writers encourages students to ask what globalization means not just to their everyday lives but to the collective future of the world. The writers, scholars, artists, journalists, and activists represented in this reader transcend globalization as a theme, challenging students to see globalization as a term that they need to define for themselves. This reader offers a more open-ended, less determined perspective than the "West and the Rest" agenda by presenting articles that are personal and local yet also engaging to a broader global audience.

LC Classification NumberHM841.G575 2014