Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Territories

by Dicken,Peter; Dicken,Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415199209
• ISBN10: 0415199204
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-05-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This impressive collection of leading, interdisciplinary experts explores various dimensions of globalization, and their relationship to development processes in the region.Globalisation and the Asia-Pacificprovides diverse accounts of how globalization is being experienced, understood, managed and resisted at various scales in relation to development processes in the Asia-Pacific. This radical new perspective provides an invaluable analysis for political scientists, as well as those involved in human geography, sociology, international political economy, development studies, asian studies and economics.

Author Biography

Peter Dicken is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Manchester Arif Dirlik is Professor of History at Duke University Dean Forbes is Professor in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Jonathan Friedman is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lund Nina Glick Schiller is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire Richard Higgott, is Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the UK's Economic and Social Research Council Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, United Kingdom Philip F. Kelly is Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore Lily Kong is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, ViceDean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Assistant Director, Office of Research, National University of Singapore James H. Mittelman is Professor in the School of International Service, American University, Washington DC Kris Olds is Lecturer at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Cayetano W. Paderanga Jr, is a member of the Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Philippines. He is on leave from the School of Economics of the University of the Philippines where he is the Bienvenido M. Gonzales Professor of Economics Saskia Sassen, formerly of Columbia University, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago Ngai-Ling Sum is Simon Research Fellow at the International Centre for Labour Studies, University of Manchester Nigel Thrift is Professor of Geography, University of Bristol, UK Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	viii
Series preface	xiii
Acknowledgements	xv
Questions in a crisis: the contested meanings of globalisation in the Asia-Pacific	1	(16)
Philip F. Kelly
Kris Olds
PART I Global discourses	17	(72)
Reflections on globalisation and its (il)logic(s)	19	(20)
Bob Jessop
Globalism and the politics of place	39	(18)
Arif Dirlik
The globalisation of the system of business knowledge	57	(15)
Nigel Thrift
Resisting globalisation: environmental politics in Eastern Asia	72	(17)
James H. Mittelman
PART II Regional reformations	89	(58)
The political economy of globalisation in East Asia: the salience of `region building'	91	(16)
Richard Higgott
Investing in the future: East and Southeast Asian firms in the global economy	107	(22)
Peter Dicken
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Rethinking globalisation: re-articulating the spatial scale and temporal horizons of trans-border spaces	129	(18)
Ngai-Ling Sum
PART III Reterritorialising the state	147	(34)
Servicing the global economy: reconfigured states and private agents	149	(14)
Saskia Sassen
Globalisation and the limits to national economic management	163	(18)
Cayetano Paderanga Jr
PART IV Global lives	181	(74)
Class formation, hybridity and ethnification in declining global hegemonies	183	(19)
Jonathan Friedman
Citizens in transnational nation-states: the Asian experience	202	(17)
Nina Glick Schiller
Globalisation, transmigration and the renegotiation of ethnic identity	219	(19)
Lily Kong
Globalisation, postcolonialism and new representations of the Pacific Asian metropolis	238	(17)
Dean Forbes
References	255	(28)
Name Index	283	(6)
Subject Index	289