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Globalization and social change / edited by Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt and Jacques Hersh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in international political economy ; 6.
- Routledge advances in international political economy ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International economic integration.
- Globalization.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Globalization and Social Change challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalization. Rather than seeing globalization as 'the end station of capitalism', it presents the development of this phenomenon as a disruptive and conflicting process.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism; The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality; Globalization in question; The future of global polarization; Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation; Critical perspectives on the role of politics; The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution; Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge
- The concept of materialist state theory and regulation theoryEast Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme; Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and speculators; Globalization and class politics in South Korea; Globalization, democratization, and labor social welfare in Thailand; Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts; States and governance in the era of ~globalization~; Civilizational conflicts and globalization: a critique; From the rubble of modernism, the rise of global civilization?; Globalization and forms of resistances
- Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistanceLessons from Ladakh? Local responses to globalization and social change; Conceptualizing a new social contract; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-57865-2
- 1-280-06957-0
- 0-585-46142-2
- 9786610069576
- 1-134-57866-0
- 0-203-47073-7
- 9780203470732
- OCLC:
- 56549364
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