Macdonaldization
English
Noun
Macdonaldization (uncountable)
- Alternative form of McDonaldization
- 2005, Wlodzimierz Kaczocha, “Social powers countervailing the globalization of the economy and cultural media”, in T. Buksinski, D. Dobrzanski, editors, Eastern Europe and the challenges of globalization, Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, →ISBN, LCCN 2005002284, OCLC 57579365, page 263:
- Thus in the course of the eighties in France and Italy there appeared first individual protests and later on an organized, social-economic countervailing movement against the so-called ‘Macdonaldization’ of food.
- 2007 November 1, José David Saldívar, “Session Three”, in Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, editor, The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum: Critical and Ethnographic Practices, NYU Press, →ISBN, OCLC 1037445567, page 91:
- I'm also intrigued by what some people from Latin America are saying about the Latin American subaltern studies group—they are saying that what this group is doing is making a kind of Macdonaldization of the academy and writing an imperialist discourse about Latin America, without fully realizing it.
- 2009, Francesca Gherardi, Claudia Angiolini, “Eradication and control of invasive species”, in Francesa Gherardi, Claudia Corti, Manuela Gualtieri, editors, Biodiversity Conservation and Habitat Management (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems), volume 2, →ISBN, LCCN 2009510244, OCLC 472696396, page 273:
- Many biologists define the introduction of NIS as biological pollution, components of global environmental changes—perhaps even more significant than global warming, causes of the Macdonaldization of the biosphere or of a global McEcosystems.