Globalization and Social Change

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ISBN: 9780415241717 | 0415241715
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/29/2001

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Challenging conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalization, this volume presents the development of this globalization as a disruptive and conflicting process rather than as "the end station of capitalism."

List of figures and tables

viii

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

xvi

Introduction: globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism

(16)

Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt

Jacques Hersh

PART I The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality

(50)

Globalization in question

(18)

David Harvey

The future of global polarization

(9)

Samir Amin

Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation

(21)

Manfred Bienefeld

PART II Critical perspectives on the role of politics

(52)

The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution

(13)

Anne Showstack Sassoon

Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge

(19)

Andrew Jamison

The concept of materialist state theory and regulation theory

101

(18)

Joachim Hirsch

PART III East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme

119

(60)

Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and speculators

121

(22)

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Globalization and class politics in South Korea

143

(15)

Kwang-Yeong Shin

Globalization, democratization, and labor social welfare in Thailand

158

(21)

Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt

PART IV Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts

179

(46)

States and governance in the era of ``globalization''

181

(18)

Philip McMichael

Civilizational conflicts and globalization: a critique

199

(13)

Jacques Hersh

From the rubble of modernism, the rise of global civilization?

212

(13)

Mark Juergensmeyer

PART V Globalization and forms of resistances

225

(58)

Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistance

227

(23)

Barry K. Gills

Lessons from Ladakh? Local responses to globalization and social change

250

(17)

Martijn van Beek

Conceptualizing a new social contract

267

(16)

Ellen Brun

Notes

283

(12)

Index

295

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