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Globalization can be partly responsible for the current global economic crisis. Case studies of Thailand and the Arab nations' view of globalization show that globalization is a threat to culture and religion, and it harms indigenous people groups while multinational corporations profit from it.
The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalization movement, [1] is a social movement critical of economic globalization. The movement is also commonly referred to as the global justice movement , [ 2 ] alter-globalization movement, anti-globalist movement, anti-corporate globalization movement, [ 3 ] or movement against neoliberal ...
The global justice movement claims to place a significant emphasis on transnational solidarity uniting activists in the Global South and Global North.While the World Social Forum is supposed to promote an example of this emphasis, bringing activists together from around the world to focus on shared philosophy and campaigning, others, like South African politician Andile Mngxitama see the World ...
Alter-globalization slogans during the protests in Le Havre against the 37th G8 summit in Deauville, France. Alter-globalization (also known as alter-globo, alternative globalization or alter-mundialization—from the French alter-mondialisation) is a social movement whose proponents support global cooperation and interaction, but oppose what they describe as the negative effects of economic ...
Antagonists view one or more globalizing processes as detrimental to social well-being on a global or local scale; [144] this includes those who focus on social or natural sustainability of long-term and continuous economic expansion, the social structural inequality caused by these processes, and the colonial, imperialistic, or hegemonic ...
One of the more useful frameworks that executives have been using to discuss the cost of reglobalization has been to think of it as an insurance cost. What is resiliency worth?
Many scholars criticize globalization theories as overzealous toward and unrealistic about the extent of global integration. [12] Some scholars criticize social theorists for offering opinions and predictions based on theory with little practical evidence. [10] In contrast, some scholars work to dispute the pessimistic views of globalization ...
Globalization brought face to face two very confident and incompatible ideas and the battle for dominance has been transformed into what is known as terrorism or "the dark side of globalization". Rather than reflecting a specific ideology , terrorism represents nostalgia (for pre-modern civilisation) and has been the result of a clash between ...