Copyright (c) 2008 Berkeley Electronic Press All rights reserved. http://www.bepress.com/ngs Recent documents in New Global Studies en-us Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:05:00 PDT 3600 http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art6 http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art6 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:41:23 PDT Rick Szostak Economics http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art5 http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art5 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:41:21 PDT Paul Bracken Contemporary History and Society http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art4 http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art4 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:41:19 PDT What is globalization? How does it operate and what are the risks and opportunities associated with globalization? Do all countries benefit from economic globalization? Can globalization spur economic growth and promote liberty or does it accelerate a "race to the bottom" and is it a threat to global stability and peace? Going beyond the polemics, this paper, by drawing on a large body of scholarship provides a nuanced discussion of a multifaceted reality of our time: globalization. Shalendra D. Sharma Globalization http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art3 http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art3 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:41:14 PDT Ulrich Beck argues that people become cosmopolitans by default, as a side-effect of circumstances they do not govern over. He is interested in when such 'unconscious' or latent cosmopolitanism becomes conscious or active, and gives rise to a global public. This article explores television news reporting of the 2004 Asian tsunami as a mediated instance of this phenomenon. It asks whether the episode can be said to have promoted what Beck would call a cosmopolitan outlook, and if so how. The article is based on an analysis of the work of eight European broadcasters, and in particular their work to activate the reflexivity which Beck argues is crucial to the cosmopolitan outlook and to nourish what Boltanski calls the spectator's imagination of distant suffering. Empirically challenging the notion of a globalized media, the reporting of five nationally-based European broadcasters is compared with that of three European channels broadcasting to global audiences. Of interest here is whether the preconditions for cosmopolitan consciousness vary from country to country, and/or from target group (national) to target group (global). Alexa Robertson Global Culture Globalization http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art2 http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art2 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:41:12 PDT The historiography of the Roman Empire overstates the "local" integrity of Roman and non-Roman culture, and de-emphasizes the interconnections and proto-global essence of imperial society. Revisiting these interconnections suggests that the Roman Empire was a precursor to modern-day globalization. R. Bruce Hitchner Globalization http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art1 http://www.bepress.com/ngs/vol2/iss2/art1 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:41:09 PDT This paper examines global labor migration as a process that is both fundamentally transnational and the target of concentrated state appropriation. Building on a growing body of empirical research on state transformation due to processes of economic globalization, the first part of the paper takes the case of the Philippines as an example of a state re-territorialization strategy to create a migrant export sector for the primary purpose of generating external finance through remittances. The second part focuses on the increasing demand for political representation from workers abroad, specifically through access to the home ballot. We argue that the transnational migrant worker shapes new articulations of belonging and political membership, and that the formalization of trans-nationalism among migrants points to new, centralized institutional mechanisms through which nation-states with large migrant populations manage, channel, and forge political action and subjectivity. Jonathan Bach Globalization