ISBN:
0816639663
,
0816639655
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 367 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalization under Construction : Govermentality, Law, and Identity
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Globalization
;
Globalization
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 1998
Abstract:
Considers descriptions of humankind's future, and the discourses of globalization that frame them, from perspectives in anthropology, geography, law, sociology, and cultural studies. The essays explore the forms, practices, and effects of governmentality integral to global modernity's architecture
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Globalization and Governmentality: An Introduction; 1. Global Strategic Vision: Managing the World; 2. Zones of New Sovereignty in Southeast Asia; 3. International Political Economy as a Cultural Practice: The Metaphysics of Capital Mobility; 4. Spanish Immigration Law and the Construction of Difference: Citizens and "Illegals" on Europe's Southern Border; 5. South Asian Workers in the Gulf: Jockeying for Places; 6. Illegality, Borderlands, and the Space of Nonexistence
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Christian Conversion and "Racial" Labor Capacities: Constructing Racialized Identities in Hawai'i8. Sex and Space in the Global City; 9. Works in Progress: Traditional Knowledge, Biological Diversity, and Intellectual Property in a Neoliberal Era; 10. Rebooting the World Picture: Flying Windows of Globalization in the End Times; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
