Seeking social justice through globalization : escaping a nationalist perspective / Gavin Kitching.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kitching, Gavin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 339 p. )

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As demonstrations at meetings of world economic leaders have dramatically shown, the ";globalization"; of the world economy is now a subject of heated political debate. Generally supported for its positive benefits by neoliberals and attacked for its negative repercussions by the left, it is a multifaceted phenomenon, and even the term is much in dispute as both academic experts and political activists tend to define it in ways that best support their own biases.In this book, Gavin Kitching is not interested so much in providing new information about globalization as an economic and social process as he is in clarifying how globalization is to be understood and evaluated as a ";good"; or ";bad"; thing. Central to his argument is that a proper evaluation requires historical self-awareness, both of the historical background of globalization itself and of the historical origins of the very norms by which such evaluations are made. Unusual for a book written from a leftist perspective, Seeking Social Justice Through Globalization argues that those who care for social justice should seek more globalization, not try to prevent its development or roll it back. In his ";modified Ricardian"; analysis, Kitching warns especially about the constraints that the inherited discourse of economic and cultural nationalism places on the full potential of globalization to improve the welfare of poor people, which is his principal concern.

Contents:

PART ONE: GLOBALIZATION, SOME CONCEPTUAL ISSUES: Globalization: buzzword or new phenomenon?

Defining the term: a useful way to start?

PART TWO: GLOBALIZATION AS A CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENON: The end of the postwar long boom

The role of transnational corporation

Globalization as a monetary phenomenon

Global direct investment since the 1970s

Globalization as a communications phenomenon

PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD POVERTY: Globalization and the world's poor

Industrialization and the alleviation of poverty

Poverty and peasant agriculture

PART FOUR: GLOBALIZATION AND THE NATION-STATE: Nationalism and capitalism

Globalization and modern economic nationalism

The Ricardian game

Neo-nationalism economic policies for a globalizing world

Globalization and imagination: beyond economics

Conclusion: Globalization and the Left

Appendix: Ricardo and unimaginable realities: a dialogue,

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-333) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271023779

0271023775

OCLC:

52907220