Rethinking Globalization(S) From Corporate Transnationalism to Local Interventions

by Aulakh, Preet S.; Schechter, Michael G.

• ISBN13: 9780312226008
• ISBN10: 0312226004
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Contributors from diverse disciplinary, ideological, and theoretical perspectives examine the multiple aspects and dimensions of globalization in this impressive collection. By employing a variety of methodological approaches, the authors provide insights into the role of numerous agents in furthering the process and project or present and future globalization(s), as manifested in economic, political and cultural domains.

Author Biography

Preet S. Aulakh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management of the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Michael G. Schechter is Professor of International Relations at the James Madison College of Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	x
Notes on the Contributors	xii
The Multidimensionality of Globalization: A Critical Perspective	1	(12)
Preet S. Aulakh
Michael G. Schechter
Part I Actually Existing Globalization(s)
Can Globality Bring a Good Society?	13	(19)
Jan Aart Scholte
Actually Existing Globalization	32	(24)
Peter Dorman
Globalization and Power	56	(17)
Howard H. Lentner
Transnational Communities: Examining Migration in a Globally Integrated World	73	(18)
Steven J. Gold
Chinese and American Discourse on Modernity and Identity in the Modern Era: Issues of Cultural Universalism and Particularism in the Theory of Globalization	91	(32)
Simei Qing
Part II The Impacts of Globalization
Globalization in the Developing World: State Capacity, Social Fragmentation, and Embeddedness	123	(30)
Gina Lambright
Nicholas van de Walle
Financial Globalization and Its Impact on Emerging Markets	153	(19)
Jiawen Yang
Handicraft Communities in Globalization: Reflections from Salvadoran Experiences	172	(26)
Juan Pablo Perez Sainz
Katharine Andrade-Eekhoff
The Impacts of Globalization on Environmental Struggles in a South African City	198	(20)
Christine Root
David Wiley
Sven Peek
Globalization's Impact on the Marking/Marketing of Islam	218	(20)
Hildy Teegen
Marta Teegen
Daughters and Generals in the Politics of the Globalized Sneaker	238	(11)
Cynthia Enloe
Part III Beyond Existing Globalization
Blade Runner Capitalism: A New Narrative on Globalization	249	(19)
Marc T. Jones
The Future of Globalization: Toward a Post-Hegemonic Consensus in Global Economic Policy	268	(15)
Jonas Zoninsein
Index	283