Globalization, the state and violence / edited by Jonathan Friedman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedman, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence--Case studies.

Political violence.

Globalization.

Citizenship.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 389 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, [2003]

Summary:

Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they investigate global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveal the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks. The authors analyze the increasing criminalization of ethnic populations, the massively destabililizing effect of migration processes, and new forms of transnational criminal networks that represents disintegration of larger homogeneous territories. This book will be a valuable reference in anthropology, social theory, international politics and economics, ethnic and immigration studies, and economic history. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Contents:

Globalization, dis-integration, re-organization : the transformations of violence / Jonathan Friedman

Class projects, social consciousness, and the contradictions of "Globalization" / Terence Turner

Economic globalization and the redrawing of citizenship / Saskia Sassen

Beyond the informal economy : new trends in post-fordist transition / Simone Ghezzi and Enzo Mingione

The new paradigm of violence / Michel Wieviorka

The case for citizenship as social contract : a tale of two girls / Unni Wikan

American neoliberalism, "Globalization" and violence : reflections from the United States and Southeast Asia / Donald M. Nonini

Killing me softly : violence, globalization, and the apparent state / Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron

Sorcery and the shapes of globalization, disjunctions and continuities : the case of Sri Lanka / Bruce Kapferer

Imagining monsters : a structural history of warfare in Chad / Steve Reyna

"Trouble spots" : projects, bandits and state fragmentation / Steven Sampson

State-classes, the logic of Rentier power and social disintegration : global parameters and local structures of the decline of the Congo / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0759102805

0759102813

OCLC:

49225293