Can the fall of globalization told through true storytelling save humanity from its own extinction? The Sixth Extinction has begun and there is no Planet B. To prevent further damage to the earth's ecosystem, this book proposes a new "Globalization Praxis" that focuses on nine planetary boundaries. This praxis is called "true storytelling". True storytelling is an ethical praxis, a methodology, and an antenarrative process of strategy.
Storytelling in the Global Age provides a new approach while uncovering ten myths of globalization. Each myth explores three storytelling layers, which are: narrative–counternarrative, Indigenous Ways of Knowing (IWOK) living story, and antenarrative layers beneath. This book is useful for professionals and students within this field.
Sample Chapter(s)
Introduction
Myth 1: Economic Globalization is Inevitable
Contents:
- Preface
- About the Author
- Acknowledgment
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Myth 1: Economic Globalization is Inevitable
- Myth 2: We Need Globalization to Feed the Hungry
- Myth 3: Globalization Will Alleviate Poverty
- Myth 4: Economic Globalization Increases Choice
- Myth 5: Economic Globalization Increases Environmental Standards in Developing Countries by Making Countries Wealthier
- Myth 6: Opposition to Economic Globalization is Protectionist
- Myth 7: Developing Countries are Depending on Economic Globalization to Achieve First-World Standard of Living
- Myth 8: There is No Realistic Alternative to Economic Globalization
- Myth 9: We Can Measure Triple Bottom Line Sustainability
- Myth 10: Globalization is Popular Culture Not Just Economics of Trade
- Antenarrative Case Study of 10 Globalization
- Myths — Dieselgate
- References
- Index
Readership: Professionals and students in globalization courses.
David M Boje is a Professor at Aalborg's Business College in Denmark. He is also Professor Emeritus at New Mexico State University (NMSU). He currently serves as a member of the editorial board for Systemic Change Journal, an ongoing conversation about ways of Governing the Anthropocene, and he helped set up a Sustainability Storytelling Lab at the European School of Governance (EUSG).
Boje has conducted over a dozen presentations on storytelling and the global climate crisis, spanning across eight countries. He is an international scholar with over 23 books and 143 journal articles, which primarily focused on organizational storytelling research methods. He created the field of "antenarrative" research. Boje received the NMSU Distinguished Career Award, and currently holds NMSU's highest rank as Regents Professor.