Grobalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18933955 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Michael Ryan (0000-0001-7207-6918, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-02-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosg069.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4252699702 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Grobalization is a term coined by sociologist George Ritzer (2004) in his book The Globalization of Nothing . It is meant to serve as a companion to the widely employed concept of glocalization. While glocalization represents the unique combinations resulting from the interpenetration of the global and the local, grobalization represents “the imperialistic ambitions of nations, corporations, organizations, and the like and their desire, indeed need, to impose themselves on various geographic areas” (p. 73). Thus, glocalization would be most closely associated with postmodern, pluralistic ideas of heterogeneity and hybridity, whereas grobalization represents a more modern, imperialistic, and homogenizing perspective more closely associated with cultural convergence
Art · Economic geography · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Globalization · Glocalization · Hybridity · Nothing · Political science · Postmodernism · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |