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Review Essay – David Singh Grewal's Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization (2008)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2019
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Networks have been discussed extensively in different ways within social and cultural theory as well as in economic scholarship. Author of Network Power, David Singh Grewal, participates in a popular discourse by describing globalization as a series of networks of power in contemporary society. In the same year that his book was published, Grewal writes a response to these theories of a globalized “flat” society in an article for the UK newspaper, The Guardian. Entitled “The World Isn't Flat – It's Networked,” the preface reads: “Globalisation does not 'flatten opportunity in the world: rather it forces everyone to conform to an underlying standard, specifically that of the already privileged nation.” A young scholar, Grewal holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and is currently Ph.D. student at the Department of Government at Harvard University.
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1 See, most recently, Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the 21ST Century (2006) and Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, who each discuss how globalization is changing the world. In 2006, both scholars, who were interviewed by the New York Times, explained their theory of a ‘flat globalized world’ in further detail. Available at: http://select.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/opinion/25friedman-transcript.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all, last accessed 27 July 2009.Google Scholar
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