Inequity in the global village : recycled rhetoric and disposable people / Jan Knippers Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Jan Knippers, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution.

Social justice.

Capitalism.

Competition, International.

Economic history--1990-.

Economic history.

Physical Description:

275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

West Hartford, Conn : Kumarian Press, 1999.

Summary:

As globalization rapidly replaces the cold war paradigm, disturbing aspects of this transition are often glossed over. Jan Black, demonstrating a firm grasp of the causes and effects of globalization, manages to telescope the reader in to a compelling local level in an array of countries, illuminating the problems that have arisen such as growing refugee populations, increased nationalism and politics of exclusion. The narrow distribution of benefits from globalization has created a yawning gap in wealth and power both among and within states which Black examines in this book. She works on the premise that this disturbing and growing gap is partly the product of a globalized capitalist system run amuck and which she describes as "mobile money and immobilized political leadership."

Contents:

1 Introduction: No Place to Call Home 1

2 Marketing Snake Oil and Theory 11

Part I A Cookie-Cutter World: The New Nationalism 35

3 Tinderbox in the Balkans' Southern Tier 41

4 The Spillover of Suppressed Nationalism: Poland and the Baltics 51

5 Empire Implosion and Independence by Default: Central Asia and Belarus 61

Part II The Displaced and the Dispossessed 67

6 Ethiopia's Costly Family Feud 73

7 A World of Refugees: The Uprooted of Indochina 81

8 Trafficking in Labor: Southeast Asia and the Modern Muslim World 89

Part III Second-Coming Capitalism and Comparative Disadvantage 97

9 Previews of the New World Order: Colonialism and the Caribbean Basin Initiative 107

10 Privatizing Privilege: Russia and Central Asia 115

11 Cuba: Clinging to the Dream 127

Part IV The Plundered Planet and Its Endangered Peoples 135

12 Boom and Bust in the Brazilian Amazon 143

13 Papua New Guinea: Modern Materialism and the New Cargo Cult 149

14 Greenpeace: An Ecowarrior's Belated Victory 157

Part V Input Democracy and the Unemployed State 167

15 Redemocratization in the Southern Cone: A Legacy of Abuse 175

16 Election Monitoring in Paraguay: The Show and the Critics 185

17 Magic Realism and Mexican Elections 193

Part VI Security States and States of Insecurity 203

18 When Democracy Fails: The Legacy of Burma's Abortive Uprising 209

19 Anarchy at Street-Level: The New Security Threat in Southern Africa 217

20 Food Security: The Bottom Line for Africa's Front-line States 223

Part VII When All Else Fails: Engendering a New Order 231

21 Dowry Abuse: No Honeymoon for Indian Brides 237

22 Doing More with Less: Structural Adjustment in the Caribbean 241

23 Globalizing Popular Organization: The Old Girls Network 247

24 Conclusion: Back to the Future 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1565491009

1565490991

OCLC:

41224109