TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmidt,Johannes Dragsbaek
AU  - Hersh,Jacques
TI  - Globalization and social change
T2  - Routledge advances in international political economy
SN  - 0415241715
AV  - HF1418.5 .G58174 2000
U1  - 303.44 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - International economic integration
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Social change
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -