Richard P. Appelbaum / William I. Robinson (eds.)

Critical Globalization Studies

Herausgeber: Appelbaum, Richard P.; Robinson, William I.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Globalization Studies is a comprehensive critical volume on globalization that balances both theory and practice. It includes pieces on contemporary globalization theory as well as accounts of globalization on the ground.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 976g
• ISBN-13: 9780415949620
• ISBN-10: 0415949629
• Artikelnr.: 21791145

Autorenporträt

William Robinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Promoting Polyarchy, which won the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Political Economy of the World System section of the American Sociological Association Richard Appelbaum is Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published opinion pieces in The Los Angeles Times and The AmericanProspect. His most recent books include Behind the Label, States and Economic Development in the Asian Pacific Rim, and Sociology, and introductory textbook.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies- Continued Debates,
New Directions, Neglected Topics, What Is a Critical Globalization Studies?
1. li You Want To Be Relevant: Advice to the Academic from a
Scholar-Activist 2. What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? Intellectual
Labor and Global Society 3. What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? The
Debate on Globalization: Competing Approaches and Perspectives 4.
Globalization in World-Systems Perspective 5. Waves of Globalization and
Resistance in the Capitalist World-System: Social Movements and Critical
Global Studies 6. Generic Globalization, Capitalist Globalization, and
Beyond: A Framework for Critical Globalization Studies 7. Transnationalism
and Cosmopolitanism: Errors of Globalism 8. Toward a Critical Theory of
Globalization: A Habermasian Approach What Is the Nature of Power and
Conflict in the World Today? 9. From Globalization to the New Imperialism
10. The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W.
Bush 11. Globalization and Development Studies 12. Globalization and
Racism: At Home and Abroad 13. Alternative Globalizations: Toward a
Critical Globalization Studies 14. The Military-Industrial Complex in
Transnational Class Theory New Directions in Globalization Research and
Implications of Globalization for Scholarship in the Academy 15. The Many
Scales of the Global: Implications for Theory and for Politics 16.
Globalization, International Migration, and Transnationalism: Some
Observations Based on the Central American Experience 17. Globalization and
the Making of a Transnational Middle Class: Implications for Class Analysis
18. Critical Globalization Studies and a Network Perspective on Global
Civil Society 19. Critical Globalization Studies and International Law
under Conditions of Postmodernity and Late Capitalism 20. Toward a
Sociology of Human Rights: Critical Globalization Studies, International
Law, and the Future of War 21. Reimagining the Governance of Globalization
22. Governing Growth and Inequality: The Continuing Relevance of Strategic
Economic Planning 23. The International Division of Reproductive Labor:
Paid Domestic Work and Globalization 24. Critical Globalization Studies and
Gender 25. Beyond Eurocentrism and Afmcentrism: Globalization, Critical
Hybridity, and Postcolonial Blackness 26. Globalization and the Grotesque
Linking Globalization Studies to Global Resistance Movements: Marginalized
Voices and Neglected Topics 27. The Implications of Subaltern
Epistemologies for Global Capitalism: Transmodernity, Border Thinking, and
Global Coloniality 28. Neoliberal Globalization and Resistance: A
Retrospective Look at the East Asian Crisis 29. Historical Dynamics of
Globalization, War, and Social Protest 30. Globalization as a Gender
Strategy: Respectability Masculinity, and Convertibility across the
Vietnamese Diaspora 31. The Red, the Green, the Black, and the Purple:
Reclaiming Development, Resisting Globalization 32. Transnational Feminism
and Globalization: Bringing Third World Women's Voices from the Margin to
Center 33. Globalization and Transnational Feminist Networks (or How
Neoliberalism and Fundamentalism Riled the World's Women) 34. Labor and the
Global Logistics Revolution 35. Fighting Sweatshops: Problems of Enforcing
Global Labor Standards 36. Sewing for the Global Economy: Thread of
Resistance in Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries 37. A Revolution in
Kindness 38. Globalization: A Path to Global Understanding or Global
Plunder?