European Glocalization in Global Context

✍ Scribed by Roland Robertson (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Series: Europe in a Global Context
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization as glocalization. The contributors deal with a range of topics including migration, media, football, beauty, Christianity, democracy and the European Union.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Prologue....Pages 1-5
Europeanization as Glocalization....Pages 6-34
Forms of the World....Pages 35-61
The Glocalizations of Christianity in Europe....Pages 62-81
European Television Programming....Pages 82-102
Glocalization Effects of Immigrants’ Activities on the Host Society....Pages 103-128
From Football to Futebol....Pages 129-146
Exploring the Glocal Flow of Beauty....Pages 147-170
Glocalization and the Simultaneous Rise and Fall of Democracy at the Century’s End....Pages 171-189
Epilogue....Pages 190-211
Back Matter....Pages 212-225

✦ Subjects

Regional and Cultural Studies;Sociology of Religion;Sociology, general;Migration;Democracy;Globalization

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