Victor Roudometof is Associate Professor of Sociology with the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus.

This text seeks to provide a critical introduction to the under-theorized concept of Glocalization. While the term has been slowly diffused into social-scientific vocabulary, to date, there is no book in circulation that specifically discusses this concept.

Chapter 1. What is Glocalization?

Part I: Introducing Glocalization

Chapter 2. The State of the Art

Chapter 3: Glocalization and Social Theory: A Critical Review

Chapter 4: Glocalization, Glocality, Glocalism

Part II Engagements

Chapter 5: Space, Modernity, and the Glocal

Chapter 6: Culture, Glocalization, and Belonging

Chapter 7: Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Glocalization 2.0

Chapter 8: The Glocal Turn and Its Limits

Appendix: A Guide to Glocalization Literature and Resources