Globalization and social change / edited by Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt and Jacques Hersh.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge advances in international political economy ; 6.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000Description: xv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415241715
- 9780415241717
- Globalisation and social change
- 303.44 21
- HF1418.5 .G58174 2000
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303.43 VIR Speed and politics : an essay on dromology / | 303.44 BRO The problem of progress. | 303.44 EIS Modernization : protest and change / | 303.44 GLO Globalization and social change / | 303.44 POL The politics of risk society / | 303.44 RET Rethinking social development : theory, research, and practice / | 303.4409 WRI A short history of progress / |
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 -- Pt. I. The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality -- 1. Globalization in question -- 2. The future of global polarization -- 3. Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation -- Pt. II. Critical perspectives on the role of politics -- 4. The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution -- 5. Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge -- 6. The concept of materialist state theory and regulation theory -- Pt. III. East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme -- 7. Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and speculators -- 8. Globalization and class politics in South Korea -- 9. Globalization, democratization, and labor social welfare in Thailand -- Pt. IV. Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts -- 10. States and governance in the era of "globalization" -- 11. Civilizational conflicts and globalization: a critique -- 12. From the rubble of modernism, the rise of global civilization? -- Pt. V. Globalization and forms of resistances -- 13. Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistance -- 14. Lessons from Ladakh? Local responses to globalization and social change -- 15. Conceptualizing a new social contract -- Notes -- Index.
"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.
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