Critical Globalization Studies

by Appelbaum; Richard P

• ISBN13: 9780415949620
• ISBN10: 0415949629
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-01-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Critical Globalization Studiesis the first volume to map out acriticalapproach to the rapidly growing field of gloablization studies. Centrally concerned with global justice, the contributors both scrutinze and recast the subject. As well, the volume serves as a bridge connecting scholars of globalization, the policy world, and the gloabla justice movement. The essays examine a wide range of topics too oftern left at the margin of globalization studies and in the process raise a host of crucial questions. Unique in its extensive and comprehensive approach,Critical Globalization Studiesdevelops new and important theoretical perspectives on globalization while engaging global social activism. It is an indispenseable guide for both academics and practitioners

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies --- Continued Debates, New Directions, Neglected Topics	xi
Richard P. Appelbaum
William I. Robinson
What Is a Critical Globalization Studies?
If You Want To Be Relevant: Advice to the Academic from a Scholar--Activist	3	(8)
Susan George
What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? Intellectual Labor and Global Society	11	(8)
William I. Robinson
What Is a Critical Globalization Studies?	19	(14)
James H. Mittelman
The Debate on Globalization: Competing Approaches and Perspectives
Globalization in World-Systems Perspective	33	(12)
Giovanni Arrighi
Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World-System: Social Movements and Critical Global Studies	45	(10)
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Barry Gills
Generic Globalization, Capitalist Globalization, and Beyond: A Framework for Critical Globalization Studies	55	(10)
Leslie Sklair
Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Errors of Globalism	65	(10)
Victor Roudometof
Toward a Critical Theory of Globalization: A Habermasian Approach	75	(16)
Darren J. O'Byrne
What Is the Nature of Power and Conflict in the World Today?
From Globalization to the New Imperialism	91	(10)
David Harvey
The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush	101	(10)
Walden Bello
Globalization and Development Studies	111	(10)
Philip McMichael
Globalization and Racism: At Home and Abroad	121	(10)
Howard Winant
Alternative Globalizations: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies	131	(10)
Peter McLaren
Nathalia E. Jaramillo
The Military-Industrial Complex in Transnational Class Theory	141	(14)
Jerry Harris
New Directions in Globalization Research and Implications of Globalization for Scholarship in the Academy
The Many Scales of the Global: Implications for Theory and for Politics	155	(12)
Saskia Sassen
Globalization, International Migration, and Transnationalism: Some Observations Based on the Central American Experience	167	(10)
Norma Chinchilla
Globalization and the Making of a Transnational Middle Class: Implications for Class Analysis	177	(10)
Steve Derne
Critical Globalization Studies and a Network Perspective on Global Civil Society	187	(10)
Barrie Axford
Critical Globalization Studies and International Law under Conditions of Postmodernity and Late Capitalism	197	(10)
A. Claire Cutler
Toward a Sociology of Human Rights: Critical Globalization Studies, International Law, and the Future of War	207	(10)
Lisa Hajjar
Reimagining the Governance of Globalization	217	(10)
Richard Falk
Governing Growth and Inequality: The Continuing Relevance of Strategic Economic Planning	227	(10)
Jeffrey Henderson
The International Division of Reproductive Labor: Paid Domestic Work and Globalization	237	(12)
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
Critical Globalization Studies and Gender	249	(10)
Jean L. Pyle
Beyond Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism: Globalization, Critical Hybridity, and Postcolonial Blackness	259	(10)
G. Reginald Daniel
Globalization and the Grotesque	269	(14)
Lauren Langman
Karen Halnon
Linking Globalization Studies to Global Resistance Movements: Marginalized Voices and Neglected Topics
The Implications of Subaltern Epistemologies for Global Capitalism: Transmodernity, Border Thinking, and Global Coloniality	283	(10)
Ramon Crosfoguel
Neoliberal Globalization and Resistance: A Retrospective Look at the East Asian Crisis	293	(10)
David A. Smith
Historical Dynamics of Globalization, War, and Social Protest	303	(10)
Beverly J. Silver
Globalization as a Gender Strategy: Respectability, Masculinity, and Convertibility across the Vietnamese Diaspora	313	(10)
Hung Cam Thai
The Red, the Green, the Black, and the Purple: Reclaiming Development, Resisting Globalization	323	(10)
Kum-Kum Bhavnani
John Foran
Molly Talcott
Transnational Feminism and Globalization: Bringing Third World Women's Voices from the Margin to Center	333	(16)
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Globalization and Transnational Feminist Networks (or How Neoliberalism and Fundamentalism Riled the World's Women)	349	(10)
Valentine M. Moghadam
Labor and the Global Logistics Revolution	359	(10)
Edna Bonacich
Fighting Sweatshops: Problems of Enforcing Global Labor Standards	369	(10)
Richard P. Appelbaum
Sewing for the Global Economy: Thread of Resistance in Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries	379	(14)
Angie Ngoc Tran
A Revolution in Kindness	393	(4)
Anita Roddick
Globalization: A Path to Global Understanding or Global Plunder?	397	(6)
Njoki Njoroge Njehu
Bibliography	403	(44)
Contributors	447	(8)
Index	455