Local lives and global transformations : towards world society / Paul Kennedy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Global and Local -- 1.1. Setting the scene -- 1.2. An outline critique of some globalization theories -- 1.3. Fleshing out the idea of globality -- 1.4. The organization of the text -- Part 1. Global Transformations -- 2. Theorizing Globalization: Linking the World -- 2.1. The de-territorialization of social life -- 2.2. Global flows and scapes -- 2.3. Managing spatiality - the power of networks -- 2.4. Global mobilities and global complexity -- 2.5. Glocalization -- 2.6. The meaning of global interconnectivities for social actors -- 2.7. Appraisal -- 3. The Global Economy: Fragmented Workers - Mobile Capital -- 3.1. How far does economic globalization shape our lives? -- 3.2. The turn towards a more predatory capitalism -- 3.3. Competing in the world labour market -- 3.4. Living on the global assembly line - tying the world together -- 3.5. Corporate power and the transnational capitalist class -- 3.6. The rise of the transnational state -- 3.7. Appraisal -- 4. Migrants: Key Agents of Globalization -- 4.1. The extent of migration -- 4.2. Transnationalism - the changing nature of migration and its causes -- 4.3. Some consequences of transnational migration for host and home societies -- 4.4. Migrants and their linkages to other agents of globalization -- 4.5. Appraisal -- 5. Transnational Criminals and Terrorists: New Insecurities -- 5.1. Transnational crime - illicit pathways in the global economy -- 5.2. Explaining the upsurge of transnational crime -- 5.3. The changing nature of transnational crime -- 5.4. The links between transnational crime and other globalizing agents -- 5.5. Contemporary terrorism in a globalizing world -- 5.6. The dependence of terrorism on global disorder -- 5.7. Appraisal -- Part 2. Local Lives -- 6. The Resilient Local: Critiquing the Idea of the Hegemonic Global -- 6.1. Escaping from the local-global binary divide -- 6.2. Rediscovering the power of place /locality -- 6.3. The demands and attractions of everyday life -- 6.4. Surviving primordial cultural affiliations and identities -- 6.5. Appraisal -- 7. The Continuing Appeal of Local, Bubble Lives: Case Studies -- 7.1. Transnational business elites -- 7.2. Embedded, national, middle-class suburbanism -- 7.3. Enforced localization and working-class lives -- 7.4. Social exclusion and the distortion of localism -- 7.5. Football and local /national allegiances -- 7.6. Appraisal -- 8. Asserting and Protecting Local Lives: Urban and Rural Resistance -- 8.1. Indigenous peoples -- 8.2. Peasants and small farmers -- 8.3. Women against neo-liberalism and patriarchy -- 8.4. Young migrants: music, identity and urban localism -- 8.5. Appraisal -- Part 3. Paths towards a World Society -- 9. Globality and World Society: Micro-Actions and Interpersonal Relations -- 9.1. Criteria for defining world society and a global consciousness -- 9.2. Towards globality - sources of individual empowerment -- 9.3. Making world society - modes of operation -- 9.4. Case studies -- 9.5. Appraisal -- 10. Looking Forward.

"How does globalization impact upon our personal lives? What are its boundaries? This book examines how local and global studies interact. Filled with case studies and empirical research that show the ways in which real local lives function under global conditions, this book helps students push the boundaries of their understanding of globalization"--Provided by publisher.

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