Seeking Social Justice Through Globalization

by Kitching, Gavin N.

• ISBN13: 9780271021621
• ISBN10: 0271021624
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Summary

As demonstrations at meetings of world economic leaders have dramatically shown, the "globalization" of the world economy is now a subject of heated political debate. Generally supported for its positive benefits by neoliberals and attacked for its negative repercussions by the left, it is a multifaceted phenomenon, and even the term is much in dispute as both academic experts and political activists tend to define it in ways that best support their own biases. In this book, Gavin Kitching is not interested so much in providing new information about globalization as an economic and social process as he is in clarifying how globalization is to be understood and evaluated as a "good" or "bad" thing. Central to his argument is that a proper evaluation requires historical self-awareness, both of the historical background of globalization itself and of the historical origins of the very norms by which such evaluations are made.Unusual for a book written from a leftist perspective, Seeking Social Justice Through Globalization argues that those who care for social jus

Author Biography

Gavin Kitching is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
An Additional Note	xv
PART ONE: GLOBALIZATION, SOME CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
Globalization: Buzzword or New Phenomenon?	3	(8)
Defining the Term: A Useful Way to Start?	11	(12)
PART TWO: GLOBALIZATION AS A CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENON
The End of the Postwar Long Boom	23	(10)
The Role of the Transnational Corporation	33	(16)
Globalization as a Monetary Phenomenon	49	(34)
Global Direct Investment Since the 1970s	83	(22)
Globalization as a Communications Phenomenon	105	(22)
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD POVERTY
Globalization and the World's Poor	127	(8)
Industrialization and the Alleviation of Poverty	135	(12)
Poverty and Peasant Agriculture	147	(22)
PART FOUR: GLOBALIZATION AND IMPERIALISM
Globalization and Imperialism	169	(22)
The Psychological Dimensions of Globalization	191	(16)
Industrialization and Historical Compulsion	207	(20)
PART FIVE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE NATION-STATE
Nationalism and Capitalism	227	(12)
Globalozation and Modern Economic Nationalism	239	(16)
The Ricardian Game	255	(14)
Non-Nationalist Economic Policies for a Globalizing World	269	(10)
Globalization and Imagination: Beyond Economics	279	(20)
Conclusions: Globalization and the Left	299	(20)
Appendix: Ricardo and Unimaginable Realities: A Dialogue	319	(4)
Bibliography	323	(12)
Index	335