Globalization and social change /
Globalization and social change /
Globalisation and social change
edited by Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt and Jacques Hersh.
- xv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in international political economy ; 6 .
- Routledge advances in international political economy ; 6. .
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index.
List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism -- The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality -- Globalization in question -- The future of global polarization -- Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation -- Critical perspectives on the role of politics -- The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution -- Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge -- The concept of materialist state theory and regulation theory -- East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme -- Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and speculators -- Globalization and class politics in South Korea -- Globalization, democratization, and labor social welfare in Thailand -- Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts -- States and governance in the era of "globalization" -- Civilizational conflicts and globalization: a critique -- From the rubble of modernism, the rise of global civilization? -- Globalization and forms of resistances -- Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistance -- Lessons from Ladakh? Local responses to globalization and social change -- Conceptualizing a new social contract -- Notes -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. Pt. IV. 10. 11. 12. Pt. V. 13. 14. 15.
"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.""--Publisher description.
0415241715 9780415241717
00036773
International economic integration
Globalization.
Social change.
HF1418.5 / .G58174 2000
303.44
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index.
List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism -- The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality -- Globalization in question -- The future of global polarization -- Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation -- Critical perspectives on the role of politics -- The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution -- Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge -- The concept of materialist state theory and regulation theory -- East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme -- Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and speculators -- Globalization and class politics in South Korea -- Globalization, democratization, and labor social welfare in Thailand -- Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts -- States and governance in the era of "globalization" -- Civilizational conflicts and globalization: a critique -- From the rubble of modernism, the rise of global civilization? -- Globalization and forms of resistances -- Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistance -- Lessons from Ladakh? Local responses to globalization and social change -- Conceptualizing a new social contract -- Notes -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. Pt. IV. 10. 11. 12. Pt. V. 13. 14. 15.
"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.""--Publisher description.
0415241715 9780415241717
00036773
International economic integration
Globalization.
Social change.
HF1418.5 / .G58174 2000
303.44