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9780415241717

Globalization and Social Change

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    9780415241717

  • ISBN10:

    0415241715

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-01-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Challenging conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalization, this volume presents the development of this globalization as a disruptive and conflicting process rather than as "the end station of capitalism."

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables
viii
List of contributors
ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xvi
Introduction: globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism 1(16)
Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt
Jacques Hersh
PART I The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality 17(50)
Globalization in question
19(18)
David Harvey
The future of global polarization
37(9)
Samir Amin
Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation
46(21)
Manfred Bienefeld
PART II Critical perspectives on the role of politics 67(52)
The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution
69(13)
Anne Showstack Sassoon
Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge
82(19)
Andrew Jamison
The concept of materialist state theory and regulation theory
101(18)
Joachim Hirsch
PART III East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme 119(60)
Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and speculators
121(22)
Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Globalization and class politics in South Korea
143(15)
Kwang-Yeong Shin
Globalization, democratization, and labor social welfare in Thailand
158(21)
Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt
PART IV Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts 179(46)
States and governance in the era of ``globalization''
181(18)
Philip McMichael
Civilizational conflicts and globalization: a critique
199(13)
Jacques Hersh
From the rubble of modernism, the rise of global civilization?
212(13)
Mark Juergensmeyer
PART V Globalization and forms of resistances 225(58)
Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistance
227(23)
Barry K. Gills
Lessons from Ladakh? Local responses to globalization and social change
250(17)
Martijn van Beek
Conceptualizing a new social contract
267(16)
Ellen Brun
Notes 283(12)
Index 295

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