The 2012 smash "Gangnam Style" by the Seoul-born rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms that have become a worldwide sensation. Dal Yong ...Jin analyzes the social and technological trends that transformed Hallyu from a mostly regional interest aimed at families into a global powerhouse geared toward tech-crazy youth. Blending analysis with insights from fans and industry insiders, Jin shows how Hallyu exploited a media landscape and dramatically changed with the 2008 emergence of smartphones and social media, designating this new Korean Wave as Hallyu 2.0. Hands-on government support, meanwhile, focused on creative industries as a significant part of the economy and turned intellectual property rights into a significant revenue source. Jin also delves into less-studied forms like animation and online games, the significance of social meaning in the development of local Korean popular culture, and the political economy of Korean popular culture and digital technologies in a global context. A first-of-its-kind treatment, New Korean Wave maps how a convergence of technology, leadership, and avid fandom unleashed a cultural tsunami.
All politics is global Drezner, Daniel W
2007., 2008, 2007, 2008-08-18, 20070101, 2008, c2007
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Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on ...global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner argues that this view is wrong. Despite globalization, states--especially the great powers--still dominate international regulatory regimes, and the regulatory goals of states are driven by their domestic interests. As Drezner shows, state size still matters. The great powers--the United States and the European Union--remain the key players in writing global regulations, and their power is due to the size of their internal economic markets. If they agree, there will be effective global governance. If they don't agree, governance will be fragmented or ineffective. And, paradoxically, the most powerful sources of great-power preferences are the least globalized elements of their economies. Testing this revisionist model of global regulatory governance on an unusually wide variety of cases, including the Internet, finance, genetically modified organisms, and intellectual property rights, Drezner shows why there is such disparity in the strength of international regulations.
Elites on Trial Glenn Morgan, Sigrid Quack, Paul Hirsch / Glenn Morgan, Sigrid Quack, Paul Hirsch
2015, 2015-02-18, Volume:
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In 2008, the world entered a new period of turmoil. Financial markets collapsed, banks and other financial institutions went in to crisis; credit dried up, consumption reduced and firms started to ...cut back and reduce investment in the light of uncertainty. Unemployment increased and welfare payments increased. States that borrowed to save their banks and to maintain their spending found the financial markets and the international institutions condemning their profligacy and urging austerity policies. This book is concerned with what happens when elites are challenged by such a crisis; in our terms, elites are 'on trial' firstly for their role in the past and shaping the context for the crisis, secondly in terms of how they responded to the crisis and finally in terms of what role they are playing in the aftermath. Can they reestablish their legitimacy or will they fail this trial and find themselves replaced by other groups with different objectives? This collection draws together a variety of studies and approaches to these issues from a group of international authors which helps us understand 'elites on trial' in the contemporary period.
Tandis que depuis un demi-siècle la « mondialisation culturelle » ne cesse d’être louée pour ses supposées vertus démocratiques ou contestée pour ses présumées logiques impérialistes, ses rouages ...sociaux restent étonnamment méconnus. Si son économie politique est régulièrement discutée, les professionnels de l’internationalisation des biens culturels et médiatiques ont, eux, fait l’objet de peu d’attention. Qui sont ces femmes et ces hommes au cœur de l’import-export des biens symboliques ? Comment en viennent-ils à (s’)investir à l’international, avec quelles ressources, en poursuivant quels enjeux et en tenant compte de quelles contraintes ? Quels intérêts inséparablement sociaux et nationaux engagent-ils dans leurs métiers ? La partie visible des échanges symboliques à l’international, souvent teintée d’économisme et de technologisme, dissimule en fait une compétition sociale entre différentes fractions des champs du pouvoir. À rebours des approches culturalistes, cet ouvrage éclaire les hiérarchies sociales au principe de l’inégale circulation internationale des biens culturels. Tout le monde n’a pas les moyens de jouer le jeu de la « mondialisation », de se mobiliser par-delà les frontières ou de faire un usage distinctif des livres et films étrangers. Si concurrence il y a, elle met sans doute moins à partie des pays que des catégories sociales. Le montrer empiriquement c’est aussi lutter contre les clichés différencialistes qui, en essentialisant et en figeant les cultures, font le lit des visions xénophobes. Les différentes contributions étayent donc cette perspective. Elles expliquent comment il est possible et pourquoi il est important, de saisir les dynamiques structurelles et les rapports de domination qui orientent les processus d’internationalisation médiatique. Ainsi, ce livre collectif espère être utile aux étudiants et chercheurs analysant la construction sociale et historique des échanges internationaux de biens symboliques. Mais au-delà, l’ouvrage s’adresse à l’ensemble des agents concernés par ces questions et entend leur suggérer des clefs pour interpréter autrement ce qui est en jeu lorsqu’ils sont confrontés « à l’international ».
In recent years, historians across the world have become increasingly interested in transnational and global approaches to the past. However, the debates surrounding this new border-crossing movement ...have remained limited in scope as theoretical exchanges on the tasks, responsibilities and potentials of global history have been largely confined to national or regional academic communities. In this groundbreaking book, Dominic Sachsenmaier sets out to redress this imbalance by offering a series of new perspectives on the global and local flows, sociologies of knowledge and hierarchies that are an intrinsic part of historical practice. Taking the United States, Germany and China as his main case studies, he reflects upon the character of different approaches to global history as well as their social, political and cultural contexts. He argues that this new global trend in historiography needs to be supported by a corresponding increase in transnational dialogue, cooperation and exchange.
La mondialisation est souvent associée à l’effacement des frontières entre les États et à la liberté de circuler. En étudiant les évolutions récentes des frontières, Steffen Mau montre que loin de ...disparaître, elles se sont transformées au xxie siècle en machines de tri. Avec l’aide de la numérisation et des nouvelles technologies de contrôle, elles se muent en smart borders, chargées de distinguer les voyageurs souhaités de ceux qui sont jugés indésirables. Ainsi, seuls quelques privilégiés bénéficient d’une liberté de circulation mondiale, tandis que pour le reste de la population, les frontières restent fermées. En s’appuyant sur des exemples précis, le sociologue analyse ici les formes, les fonctions et les symboliques de ces nouvelles frontières. À rebours de l’image répandue d’un monde contemporain entièrement ouvert, il met en évidence la façon dont elles établissent des inégalités face à la mobilité. Cet ouvrage propose une approche critique, rigoureuse et inédite du rôle des frontières dans le monde d’aujourd’hui. Steffen Mau y déploie sa réflexion dans une langue claire et accessible, et invite les lecteurs à se pencher sur les frontières modernes en remettant en question certains à priori.
New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered “secondary” in the international context. ...The arguments are not only based on material progress made by these metropolises, but also on the growing social difficulties experienced (e.g., organized crime, drug trafficking, slums, economic inequalities). The book illustrates the growth of cities according to these problems arising from the modernity of the new century, comparing Latin American and Asian cities. This book analyzes the complex relationships within cities through an interdisciplinary approach, complementing other research and challenging orthodox views on global cities. At the same time, the book provides new theoretical and methodological tools to understand the progress of “Third World” cities and the way of understanding “globality” in the 21st century by confronting the traditional views with which global cities were appreciated since the 1980s. Pablo Baisotti brings together researchers from various fields who provide new interpretative keys to certain cities in Latin America and Asia.
Au terme de cette étude qui a porté sur les enjeux de la mondialisation dans la diplomatie Congolaise (RDC), notre objectif majeur a été de montrer l’impact de la mondialisation dans le domaine ...diplomatique Congolais en remontant jusqu’à la genèse de cette diplomatie. En effet, le développement que visent les pays Africains, en général, et la RDC, en particulier, et que l’on pense atteindre, au travers de la mondialisation, reste bel et bien une utopie s’il n’est pas accompagné d’une gestion sérieuse, car tout est centré sur le profit. Pour sortir de la domination étrangère au cours de ce millénaire de la mondialisation, la diplomatie Congolaise devrait s’appuyer sur la politique du pays pour permettre l’auto-gérance, le développement des mécanismes de protection de ses ressources ou potentialités ainsi que la res-publica dans tous les domaines possibles.
Mapping World Literature explores the study of literature and literary history in light of global changes, looking at what defines world literature in the 21st century. Surveying ideas of literature ...from Goethe to the present, Thomsen devises a compelling concept of literary constellations. He discusses a wide-range of critical positions, identifies the limits of comparative and post-colonial approaches and examines two specific cases: literature written by migrant writers and the literature of genocide, war and disaster. Mapping World Literature captures new ways of understanding the patterns and trends that emerge in literature, opening up and inspiring research to map patterns in the field.
