The collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University to reflect on the lived-experience of globalization. It uses a narrative approach to explore how key concepts in the field of globalization studies relate to the experience of everyday life.

Foreword, Joseph Siracusa / 1. Introduction: Reflections on the Global Condition, Julian CH Lee / 2. On Culture and Hybridity: Gangnam Style and the Inventiveness of Tradition, Julian CH Lee / 3. On Transculturation: Reenacting and Remaking Latin American Dance and Music in Foreign Lands, Elizabeth Kath / 4. On Non-Places: Localizing the Global at Changi Airport's Terminal 3, Singapore, Chris Hudson / 5. On the Global Image: Globalization as a Visual-Ideological Phenomenon, Tommaso Durante / 6. On the World Wide Web: Disrupting Education in the Digital Age, Debra Bateman / 7. On Neoliberalism and Welfare: Payday Lending and Commodifying Social Provisioning, Marcus Banks and Greg Marston / 8. On Language and Interculturality: Teaching Languages and Cultures for a Global World, Chantal Crozet / 9. On Diversity and Language: My Route through Different Cultures, Languages and Ideologies, Lynne N. Li / 10. On a Global Moral Economy: Young People and Engaging with Others in Need, Rebekah Farrell / 11. On Universal Human Rights: Universality and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, Ian Howie / 12. On Global Security: International Law, Use-of-Force and Hegemony, Aiden Warren / 13. Afterword, Julian CH Lee / References / Notes on Contributors