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Global social change : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- They compare post-World War II globalization with the great wave of economic integration that occurred in the late nineteenth century, analyze the rise of the political ideology of the "globalization project"--Reaganism-Thatcherism--and discuss issues of gender and global inequalities.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones
- Conducting global social research / Salvatore J. Babones
- What is globalization?
- Global social change in the long run / Thomas D. Hall, Christopher Chase-Dunn
- Competing conceptions of globalization / Leslie Sklair
- Globalization : a world-systems perspective / Christopher Chase-Dunn
- Global inequality
- Global inequality : an introduction / Jonathan H. Turner, Salvatore J. Babones
- Global energy inequalities : exploring the long-term implications / Bruce Podobnik
- Globalization and the environment
- Ecosystems and world systems : accumulation as an ecological process / Alf Hornborg
- Global social change, natural resource consumption, and environmental degradation / Andrew W. Jorgenson
- Globalization, hegemony, and global governance
- Spatial and other "fixes" of historical capitalism / Giovanni Arrighi
- Contemporary intracore relations and world systems theory / Peter Gowan
- Global social movements
- Gender and globalization : female labor and women's mobilization / Valentine M. Moghadam
- Environmentalism and the trajectory of the anti-corporate globalization movement / Frederick H. Buttel, Kenneth A. Gould
- National and global foundations of global civil society / Jackie Smith, Dawn Wiest
- Transnational social movements and democratic socialist parties in the semiperiphery : on to global democracy / Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn
- Globalization and the future of democracy / John Markoff.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8941-3
- OCLC:
- 923193452
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