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" A social process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding. "
Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic ...
by Victor Roudometof - 2001 - 304 pages
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Rotterdam: Konturen einer globalisierten Stadt

Frank Eckardt - 2001 - 220 pages
...die von Malcom Waters gegebene Definition hingewiesen: „We can therefore define globalization as a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding." 2 Während in dieser Definition noch keine Rede von ökonomischen Globalisierungsprozessen ist, soll...
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Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections

John C. Hawley, Dennis Altman - 2001 - 350 pages
...situation of gay/lesbian studies and postcolonial theory. Malcolm Waters describes globalization as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding" (1995:3). Roland Robertson similarly characterizes it as an "increasing acceleration in both concrete...
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Globalization: The Reader

John Beynon, David Dunkerley - 2000 - 326 pages
...consumerism. These ideas are expanded upon by Waters (op. cit.), who characterizes globalization as '. . . a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding' (p. 3). He goes on to predict that in the future, territoriality will disappear as an organising principle...
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Encountering Religious Pluralism: The Challenge to Christian Faith Mission

Harold Netland - 2001 - 372 pages
...cultural change today. This aspect is captured nicely in Malcolm Waters 's definition of globalization as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...recede and in which people become increasingly aware (hat they are receding. "' ' Globalization is directly linked to modernization, for, as many social...
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Government and the Economy: A Global Perspective

Jan-Erik Lane, Svante O. Ersson - 2002 - 362 pages
...consciousness of the world as a whole. (Robertson, 1992: 8) We can therefore define globalization as: A social process in which the constraints of geography...increasingly aware that they are receding. (Waters, 1995: 3) Globalization is 'the intensification of economic, political, social and cultural relations across...
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Eine periphere Gesellschaft: Regionalentwicklung zwischen Erfurt und Weimar

Frank Eckardt - 2002 - 326 pages
...zunehmend mehr Menschen und Plätzen auf der Welt gibt. „We can therefore define globalization as a social process in which the constraints of geography...increasingly aware that they are receding." (Waters 1995, S.3). Die Globalisierung ist in diesem Sinne betonterweise prozesshaft zu interpretieren, in der Richtungen,...
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Global Media Spectacle: News War over Hong Kong

Chin-Chuan Lee, Joseph Man Chan, Zhongdang Pan, Clement Y K So - 2012 - 296 pages
...shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa." Waters (1995: 3) defines globalization as "a social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding." Globalization and localization are a pair of conceptual opposites that at the same time imply each...
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Rethinking Anti-racisms: From Theory to Practice

Floya Anthias, Cathie Lloyd - 2002 - 232 pages
...change signalled by the globalisation debate. Waters, in his useful book Globalisation, defines it as 'A social process in which the constraints of geography...become increasingly aware that they are receding' (1995: 3). Whilst ethnic and other fundamentalisms have been seen as a reaction/contradiction to globalisation,...
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Rethinking Anti-racisms: From Theory to Practice

Floya Anthias, Cathie Lloyd - 2002 - 228 pages
...change signalled by the globalisation debate. Waters, in his useful book Globalisation, defines it as 'A social process in which the constraints of geography...in which people become increasingly aware that they arc receding' (1995: 3). Whilst ethnic and other fundamentalisms have been seen as a reaction/contradiction...
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Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, Bio/diversity

Susan Hawthorne - 2002 - 484 pages
...interdependence which is portrayed as "good for everyone". Malcolm Waters defines globalisation as a "social process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede" (1995: 3). This is an interesting definition, but Waters does not highlight the aspect of his definition...
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