Globalization and Social Change (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dragsbaek Schmidt, Johannes; Hersh, Jacques

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative and forward-looking volume which challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalisation. Essential reading for those interested in the development of and the potential alternatives to globalisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134578665
• Artikelnr.: 43071870

Autorenporträt

Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Jacques Hersh

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism Johannes
Dragsbaek Schmidt and Jacques Hersh Part I. The intellectual challenge:
discourse, ideology and reality 2. Globalization in question David Harvey
3. The future of global polarization Samir Amin 4. Globalization and social
change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation Manfred
Bienefeld Part II. Critical perspectives on the role of politics 5. The
space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution Anne
Showstack Sassoon 6. Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge
Andrew Jamison 7. The concept of materialist state theory and regulation
theory Joachim Hirsch Part III. East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme 8.
Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and specualtors
Amiya Kumar Bagchi 9. Globalization and class politics in South Korea
Kwang-Yeong Shin 10. Globalization, democratization and labour social
welfare in Thailand Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt Part IV. Geopolitics and
intersocietal conflicts 11. States and governance in the era of
'globalization' Philip McMichael 12. Civilization conflicts and
globalization: a critique Jacques Hersh 13. From the rubble of modernism,
the rise of global civilization? Mark Juergensmeyer Part V. Globalization
and forms of resistances 14. Overturning globalization: rethinking the
politics of resistance Barry K. Gills 15. Lessons from Ladakh? local
responses to globalization and social change Martijn van Beek 16.
Conceptualizing a new social contract Ellen Brun