English

The planet Earth as seen from space

Noun

mundialization ‎(uncountable)

1. An ideology based on the solidarity and diversity of global citizens and the creation of supranational laws, intended as a response to dehumanizing aspects of globalization.
   • 1978, Israel W. Charny, editor, Strategies Against Violence: Design for Nonviolent Change, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, ISBN 978-0-89158-151-2, page 315:

     The mundialization movement was born in Hiroshima, in 1945, when the surviving citizens declared their resolve to work for a world federation that would make impossible any repetition of the tragedy that their city had undergone.

   • 1988, Peace Research Reviews, volume 11, Oakville, Ont.: Canadian Peace Research Institute, ISSN 0553-4283, OCLC 1641606, page 19:

     Mundialization is a psychological mechanism toward peace by which the "in-group" is enlarged until it encompasses all humans.

   • 2003, Juan Poblete, Critical Latin American and Latino Studies (Cultural Studies of the Americas; 12), Minneapolis, Minn.; London: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0-8166-4079-9, page 59:

     Renato Ortiz made the distinction between globalization and "mundialization" (that is, between the global and the worldly).

Alternative forms

• mondialisation, mondialization