Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jung Min Choi, John W. Murphy, and Manuel J. Caro -- The traditional ontology of development, history, and globalization fro m below / John W. Murphy -- What is globalization? : ambiguities of the contemporary world scene / Vicente Berdayes -- Globalization and power : the hidden injuries of consumerism / Stephen Shapiro -- Globalizatio n and resistance to the market in education / Karen A. Callaghan -- Doe s dependency theory still have relevance in Latin America? / William Gu edes Cortezia -- Vanishing meaning, the ideology of value-addition, and the diffusion of broadband information technology / Eric Mark Kramer - - Universalized globalization and the logics of identity / Algis Mickun as -- The limits and alternatives to democracy : democracy in the era o f globalization / Alejandro Serrano Caldera -- Nationhood, quantum huma nism, and Latin America / Carlos Largacha-Martâinez and Manuel J. Caro -- Toward an embodied global ethic / Luigi Esposito -- Striking back at empire : a postmodern resistance to neoliberalism and globalization / Jung Min Choi and Lawrence Byrne.