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100 1 _aKennedy, Paul T.,
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245 1 0 _aLocal lives and global transformations :
_btowards world society /
_cPaul Kennedy.
264 1 _aBasingstoke, Hampshire ;
_aNew York :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2010.
300 _axiii, 294 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _g1.
_tIntroduction: Global and Local --
_g1.1.
_tSetting the scene --
_g1.2.
_tAn outline critique of some globalization theories --
_g1.3.
_tFleshing out the idea of globality --
_g1.4.
_tThe organization of the text --
_gPart 1.
_tGlobal Transformations --
_g2.
_tTheorizing Globalization: Linking the World --
_g2.1.
_tThe de-territorialization of social life --
_g2.2.
_tGlobal flows and scapes --
_g2.3.
_tManaging spatiality - the power of networks --
_g2.4.
_tGlobal mobilities and global complexity --
_g2.5.
_tGlocalization --
_g2.6.
_tThe meaning of global interconnectivities for social actors --
_g2.7.
_tAppraisal --
_g3.
_tThe Global Economy: Fragmented Workers - Mobile Capital --
_g3.1.
_tHow far does economic globalization shape our lives? --
_g3.2.
_tThe turn towards a more predatory capitalism --
_g3.3.
_tCompeting in the world labour market --
_g3.4.
_tLiving on the global assembly line - tying the world together --
_g3.5.
_tCorporate power and the transnational capitalist class --
_g3.6.
_tThe rise of the transnational state --
_g3.7.
_tAppraisal --
_g4.
_tMigrants: Key Agents of Globalization --
_g4.1.
_tThe extent of migration --
_g4.2.
_tTransnationalism - the changing nature of migration and its causes --
_g4.3.
_tSome consequences of transnational migration for host and home societies --
_g4.4.
_tMigrants and their linkages to other agents of globalization --
_g4.5.
_tAppraisal --
_g5.
_tTransnational Criminals and Terrorists: New Insecurities --
_g5.1.
_tTransnational crime - illicit pathways in the global economy --
_g5.2.
_tExplaining the upsurge of transnational crime --
_g5.3.
_tThe changing nature of transnational crime --
_g5.4.
_tThe links between transnational crime and other globalizing agents --
_g5.5.
_tContemporary terrorism in a globalizing world --
_g5.6.
_tThe dependence of terrorism on global disorder --
_g5.7.
_tAppraisal --
_gPart 2.
_tLocal Lives --
_g6.
_tThe Resilient Local: Critiquing the Idea of the Hegemonic Global --
_g6.1.
_tEscaping from the local-global binary divide --
_g6.2.
_tRediscovering the power of place /locality --
_g6.3.
_tThe demands and attractions of everyday life --
_g6.4.
_tSurviving primordial cultural affiliations and identities --
_g6.5.
_tAppraisal --
_g7.
_tThe Continuing Appeal of Local, Bubble Lives: Case Studies --
_g7.1.
_tTransnational business elites --
_g7.2.
_tEmbedded, national, middle-class suburbanism --
_g7.3.
_tEnforced localization and working-class lives --
_g7.4.
_tSocial exclusion and the distortion of localism --
_g7.5.
_tFootball and local /national allegiances --
_g7.6.
_tAppraisal --
_g8.
_tAsserting and Protecting Local Lives: Urban and Rural Resistance --
_g8.1.
_tIndigenous peoples --
_g8.2.
_tPeasants and small farmers --
_g8.3.
_tWomen against neo-liberalism and patriarchy --
_g8.4.
_tYoung migrants: music, identity and urban localism --
_g8.5.
_tAppraisal --
_gPart 3.
_tPaths towards a World Society --
_g9.
_tGlobality and World Society: Micro-Actions and Interpersonal Relations --
_g9.1.
_tCriteria for defining world society and a global consciousness --
_g9.2.
_tTowards globality - sources of individual empowerment --
_g9.3.
_tMaking world society - modes of operation --
_g9.4.
_tCase studies --
_g9.5.
_tAppraisal --
_g10.
_tLooking Forward.
520 _a"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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