Globalization and Social Change (Hardcover)

Contents:
Introduction
1. Globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt and Jacques Hersh
Part I. The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology and reality
2. Globalization in question David Harvey
3. The future of global polarization Samir Amin
4. Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation Manfred Bienefeld
Part II. Critical perspectives on the role of politics
5. The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution Anne Showstack Sassoon
6. Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge Andrew Jamison
7. The concept of materialist state theory and regulation theory Joachim Hirsch
Part III. East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme
8. Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and specualtors Amiya Kumar Bagchi
9. Globalization and class politics in South Korea Kwang-Yeong Shin
10. Globalization, democratization and labour social welfare in Thailand Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt
Part IV. Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts
11. States and governance in the era of 'globalization' Philip McMichael
12. Civilization conflicts and globalization: a critique Jacques Hersh
13. From the rubble of modernism, the rise of global civilization? Mark Juergensmeyer
Part V. Globalization and forms of resistances
14. Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistance Barry K. Gills
15. Lessons from Ladakh? local responses to globalization and social change Martijn van Beek
16. Conceptualizing a new social contract Ellen Brun

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
Release date:	December 2000
First published:	2000
Editors:	Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt • Jacques Hersh
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-24171-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-24171-5
Barcode:	9780415241717

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