Contesting Globalization: Space and Place in the World Economy

by Drainville,AndrT C.

• ISBN13: 9780415319294
• ISBN10: 0415319293
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is an innovative and original addition to the literature on globalization which examines the challenges faced by those wishing to develop progressive visions of transparent global governance and civil society. The author traces the history and development of the institutions of global governance (The World Bank, IMF, WTO etc) as well as the emergence of the anti-globalization movement. The author argues that we are at a unique moment where social forces have moved from national and international struggles to a global struggle and intervention in the world economy. A series of case studies examine the ways in which cities have become contested sites for global struggles from the London dockworkers strikes of the 19th Century to the recent demonstrations against the international financial institutions in Genoa, Seattle and Washington. The author's approach is controversial as he is also critical of some aspects of the anti-globalization movement which he regards as apolitical.

Author Biography

Andre C. Drainville is Professor of International Political Economy at Laval University, Quebec, Canada.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Foreword by Saskia Sassen	xii
Series preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xvii
Introduction	1	(18)
Emerging modes of social relations to the world economy	9	(6)
What will be included in this book and what will be left out	15	(1)
Chapter outlines	16	(3)
1 More than ghosts: subjects in places in the world economy	19	(20)
Ghosts in three machines	20	(12)
Subjects in places in the world economy	32	(5)
Conclusion	37	(2)
2 Three episodes from cities in the world economy	39	(32)
Occupying places	40	(18)
Civic ordering	58	(11)
Conclusion	69	(2)
3 Occupying places in the world economy	71	(33)
From classical Left internationalism to anti-systemic movements: abstract subjects out of place	72	(3)
Contemporary happenings: concrete fights over locations	75	(28)
Conclusion	103	(1)
4 The civic ordering of global social relations	104	(36)
The global level	106	(15)
Regional governance	121	(10)
City-level governance	131	(4)
Conclusion	135	(5)
5 Integrated world creation: outlines of a radical articulation	140	(17)
Elements of hegemonical articulation	141	(15)
Conclusion	156	(1)
Conclusion	157	(7)
Notes	164	(14)
Bibliography	178	(25)
Index	203