Preface Introduction: A Shrinking Planet 1. Disembedding Globalization and Distance Towards a More Abstract World Abstract Time and Temperature Money as a Means of Communication Abstract Music Printing and Factories Nationalism as a Template for Globalization Other Disembedding Mechanisms Disembedded Friendship Neoliberal Economics and Disembedding Critics of Disembedding 2. Speed Time-space Compression Accelerated Change Friedman's "Flatteners" Acceleration in the Media Bourdieu's Pessimism Simultaneity Some Further Implications of Acceleration The Unevenness of Speed 3. Standardization Some Standards of a Global Modernity Some Contemporary Forms of Standardization Obsolescence Bilingualism and Standardization The Globalization of Nothing McWorld and Its Discontents MS Word The Shipping Container and Standardization Resistance to Standardization 4. Connections Criticisms of Methodological Nationalism The Network Society Communication Networks A Networked Global Economy? Globalization from Below Global Governance? Translation Remittances and Cheap Calls Soccer and Globalization Delinking, Chosen, and Enforced A World of Slums Connectedness and Disjunctures 5. Mobility Transnational Migration Transnational Connections Outsourcing the Nation-state? The Growth of Tourism The Tourist and the Refugee Long-distance Nationalism Gendered Migration Nostalgia 6. Mixing Forms of Mixing Hybridity and Creolization World Music A Mixed Family in Mauritius A Model 7. Risk Natural and Manufactured Risks? Perceived Risk and Real Consequences Invasive Species Climate Change Climate Change and Global Democracy Wavering Trust in Expert Systems Dealing with Global Risks Locally Globalization and Wars on Terror Human Rights and Security 8.

Identity Politics The Politicized Concept of Culture Identity Politics as a Response to Globalization A Grammar of Identity Politics Indigenous Strategies Reembedding in Diasporas Trust and Social Capital Neonationalism and Islamism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Human Rights and Identity Politics 9. Alterglobalization Protest Movements The Transnational Occupy Movement Alterglobalizing Strategies in the South The Slowness Movement From the Arab Spring to the Snowden Affair Afterword: An Overheated World Bibliography Index.