Macdonaldization

English

Noun

Macdonaldization (uncountable)

1. 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^[1], Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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^[2], NYU Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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)‎^[3], volume 2, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.