After Globalization

by Eric Cazdyn, Imre Szeman

In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After establishing seven theses (on education, morality, history, future, capitalism, nation, and common sense) that challenge the false promises that sustain this time-limit, After Globalization examines four popular thinkers (Thomas Friedman, Richard Florida, Paul Krugman and Naomi Klein) and how their work is dulled by these promises. Cazdyn and Szeman then speak to students from around the globe who are both unconvinced and uninterested in these promises and who understand the world very differently than the way it is popularly represented. After Globalization argues that a true capacity to think an after to globalization is the very beginning of politics today.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 25, 2011

Reviews

[Khaled · Rating 3 out of 5]

كتاب مهم يضاف للمكتبة العربية وان عابه بعضا من الغموض واعتقد ان هذا يرجع للترجمه وليس إلا
واعتقد ان الفصل الاول هو اهم الفصول بالكتاب فالفصل الثاني وان كان يحوي بعضا من تدليلات المؤلفين عبر فحص ونقد عده كتب ونظريات لشخصيات بارزة الا انه لم يصل بالفكرة الخاصه التي يمتحور حولها الكتاب كذلك شاب الفصل الثالث والخاص بترجمه تلك الافكار عبر عرض اراء لطلاب بعيدين كل البعد عن مواجهه العولمة عبر بلدانهم وخاصه طلاب من ألمانيا والمجر وكرواتيا وكان حريا بهم الاستعاضه عن ذلك بسرد اراء لطلاب جامعيين من الشرق الاوسط الا انه في مجمله يعد عملا راسخا في اتجاه ما بعد العولمة ودراساتها

[Rachel · Rating 1 out of 5]

At first I thought I was really going to enjoy this book and learn a lot about globalization, and now I feel like these guys are just extremists.

I tried to finish it, but I can't get through it. The writers go on sounding very confusing and pretentious, and their arguments sound more like rants. I would not recommend this book.

[Selkirk · Rating 3 out of 5]

Call no. JZ 1318 C39 2011