ISBN:
9780786496082
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (388 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Cost of Globalization : Dangers to the Earth and Its People
DDC:
303.482
Keywords:
Globalization -- Economic aspects
;
Globalization -- Social aspects
;
Externalities (Economics)
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Anti-globalization movement
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Poverty
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Social justice
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Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Over the past 25 years, numerous books have been written on the advantages and disadvantages of globalization. But the issues arising from rapid global integration have generally been treated in isolation by most academic works. This volume examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions who receive little benefit from their labor and
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1. 21st Century Globalization: Illusions of Global Economic Prosperity Yet the Reality of Poverty; 2. Globalization, Ecocide and the Lethal Threats Against Indigenous Peoples; 3. Unjust Globalization and the Acute Marginalization of Poor Women in the World; 4. Unjust Globalization and Unfair Justice Against the Poor: Lethal Racism, Expanded Incarceration, Law Enforcement Violence and Punishment Over Education; 5. Globalization's Intensification of Global Warming and Climate Change
Description / Table of Contents:
Epilogue: Whither Unjust Globalization? An Open Future Based Neither on Linear Progress Nor Materialist ConsumptionChapter Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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