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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779183503321

Titolo

Two Mediterranean worlds : diverging paths of globalization and autonomy / / edited by Yassine Essid and William D. Coleman ; translated by Käthe Roth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver : , : UBC Press, , 2012

ISBN

0-7748-2320-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 419 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Globalization and autonomy series

Altri autori (Persone)

EssidYassine

ColemanWilliam D

RothKäthe

Disciplina

909.09

Soggetti

Globalization - Mediterranean Region

Autonomy - Mediterranean Region

Mediterranean Region Economic conditions 1945-

Mediterranean Region Intellectual life

Mediterranean Region Politics and government 1945-

Mediterranean Region Social conditions 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Deux Méditerranées : les voies de la mondialisation et de l'autonomie.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Adapting and integrating : governing in globalization -- pt. 2. Globalization in the great texts -- pt. 3. Religions and globalization -- pt. 4. Cultural autonomy : music and food -- pt. 5. Cultural autonomy : languages and education -- pt. 6. Globalization and autonomy : the economic question.

Sommario/riassunto

Globalization includes complex processes, easy to identify but difficult to explain. Why, for instance, are globalizing processes so unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect does this uneven distribution have on the everyday lives of ordinary people? The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the people of the north shore, who are engaged with Europe and modernized, and their poorer neighbours to the south, who struggle daily to atain the same standards of living and modes of governance as their more Westernized



neighbours. In these two regions' divergent histories, economies, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, education systems, and political structures lead to explanations not only for uneven globalization but also for the wave of demonstrations for political and cultural autonomy that sparked the Arab Spring in North Africa and the Near East.