TY - JOUR AU - O'Neill, John PY - 1997/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Globalization, Alienation and the Loss of Other-Wiseness JF - Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees JA - Refuge VL - 15 IS - 6 SE - Articles DO - 10.25071/1920-7336.21894 UR - https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/21894 SP - 11-12 AB - The author focuses on the impact of globalizationon different aspects of civilsociety. He argues that the global divisionof labour, and the exodus of transnationalcorporations has resulted in anew configuration of the forces of integrationand fragmentation of regionaleconomies. Postmodernist emphasis onheterogeneity and uniqueness of culturallife has given the Radical Rightjustification for excluding attention tothose considered as cultural minorities.Rather, we are reduced to a commondenominator of economic strength asthe only criterion of value and legitimacy. ER -