中文摘要 |
As neo-liberal globalization has been dominating almost the whole world since the late 1980s, the dialectics of global vs. local logically became an important focus of the academic inquiry. That the opposition 'global-local' is dialectical – that is, both elements of the pair are bound to mutually interact influencing each other in a variety of complicated ways – is more than obvious if one looks, for example, at the ideologies and values of today's globalizing world. 'Market' is ubiquitous and triumphant but the way it is understood and practiced in Scandinavia still differs markedly from what is seen as a norm in the USA; contrary to the stereotypes, even relatively less globalized North Korea does not reject the global discourse of human rights, but frames it in its own (essentially nationalist and Confucian) way, emphasizing the people's right to state sovereignty and the ideal of 'benevolent state' guaranteeing the safety and subsistence minimum for its subjects.1 In a way, multi-faceted localizations may be said to constitute an important part of the globalization process. |