ISBN:
9780415241717
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in International Political Economy Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Globalization and Social Change
DDC:
303.44
Keywords:
Social change
;
Globalization
;
International economic integration
;
Globalization
;
International economic integration
;
Social change
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
An innovative and forward-looking volume which challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalisation. Essential reading for those interested in the development of and the potential alternatives to globalisation
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism; The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality; Globalization in question; The future of global polarization; Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation; Critical perspectives on the role of politics; The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution; Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
The concept of materialist state theory and regulation theoryEast Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme; Globalizing India: a critique of an agenda for financiers and speculators; Globalization and class politics in South Korea; Globalization, democratization, and labor social welfare in Thailand; Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts; States and governance in the era of ~globalization~; Civilizational conflicts and globalization: a critique; From the rubble of modernism, the rise of global civilization?; Globalization and forms of resistances
Description / Table of Contents:
Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistanceLessons from Ladakh? Local responses to globalization and social change; Conceptualizing a new social contract; Notes; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism; The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality; Globalization in question; The future of global polarization; Globalization and social change: drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation; Critical perspectives on the role of politics; The space for politics: globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution; Globalization and the revival of traditional knowledge
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