Recent Articles

 

  • “Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing” Sociological Theory 21, 3, 2003: 193-209.

  • “The Globalization of Nothing.” SAIS Review: A Journal of International Affairs 23, 2, 2003: 189-200.

  • “Islands of the Living Dead: the Social Geography of McDonaldization” American Behavioral Scientist (special issue), 47, 2, 2003: 119-136.

  • “Die Globalisierung des “Nichts”: So Viele Machen So Viel Aus So Wenig” In Marcus S. Kleiner and Hermann Strasser, eds., Globalisierung: Kultur and Gesellschaft in Einer Entfesselten Welt. Cologne: Herbert van Halem Verlag, 2003: 78-101.

  • “Toward a Richer Understanding of Global Commodification.” (With Mike Ryan) The Hedgehog Review 5, 2, 2003: 66-76.

  • “Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and Globalization” (with Todd Stillman) in Ulrich Beck, Natan Sznaider and Rainer Wibnter (eds), Global America: The Cultural Consequences of Globalization. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003: 30-48.

  • “Transformations in Consumer Settings: Landscapes and Beyond,” (with J. Michael Ryan and Jeffrey Stepnisky) In Inside Consumption, R. Ratneshwar & D. Mick (ed.). New York: Routledge, 2003.

  • “Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and Globalization” (with Todd Stillman), In Natan Sznaider and Ulrich Beck, eds., Global America.

  • “Solidity in a World of Liquidity: The Persistence of Modernity in an Increasingly Postmodern World” (with Jim Murphy), In Matthias Junge and Thomas Kron, eds., Zygmunt Bauman. Stuttgart: Leske and Budrich, 2002: 51-79 (in German).

  •   “Who’s a Public Intellectual?” British Journal of Sociology 57, 2, 2006: 209-213.

  •  “Can Globalized Commercial Architecture be Anything but McDonaldized, Nothing?” (in German) In Gerd Zimmerman and Arie Graafland, The Domestic and the Foreign: Globalization in Architecture, forthcoming.

  •  “Interviews with Leading Thinkers and Writers, Aurora Online, April, 2006.

  •  “The `Magical’ World of Consumption: Transforming Nothing Into Something” (with Jeff Stepnisky and Jon Lemich) Berkeley Journal of Sociology 2005: 118-137.

  •  “Angst vor McWorld “ (in German) in Hermann Strasser and Gerd Nollmann, Endstation Amerika? Wiesbaden: Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2005: 216-233.

  •  “Transformations in Consumer Settings: Landscapes and Beyond.” (with Michael Ryan and Jeffrey Stepnisky) in S. Ratneshwar and David Glen Mick, Inside Consumption: Consumer Motives, Goals, and Desires. London: Routledge, 2005: 292-308.

  •  “Credit Cards and the Globalization of Nothing” Saint Louis University Public Law Review (special issue on the Consumer Lending Revolution) xxiv, 2, 2005: 313-333.

  •  “The Globalization of Nothing” (with Michael Ryan) In Samir Dasgupta. Ed., The Changing Face of Globalization. New Delhi: Sage, 2004: 198-217.

  •  “Americanisation, McDonaldisation and Globalisation” (with Michael Ryan) In Neil Campbell, et al., eds., Issues in Americanisation and Culture. Edinburgh: Edingburgh University Press, 2004: 41-60.

  •  Review Symposium: The Globalization of Nothing. Thesis Eleven February 2004: 111-114.

    “Rethinking Globaliztion: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing” Sociological Theory 21, 3, 2003: 193-209.

  •  “The Globalization of Nothing.” SAIS Review: A Journal of International Affairs 23, 2, 2003: 189-200.

  •  “Islands of the Living Dead: The Social Geography of McDonaldization,” American Behavioral Scientist (special issue), 47, 2, 2003: 119-136.

  • “Postmodern Social Theory and Sociology: On Symbolic Exchange with a “Dead” Theory,” (with J. Michael Ryan) In Reconstructing Postmodernism. Jason Powell and Tim Owen (eds.), New York: Nova Science Publishers, forthcoming in 2007.