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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465619103321

Autore

Antoniades Andreas

Titolo

Producing globalisation [[electronic resource] ] : politics of discourse and institutions in Greece and Ireland / / Andreas Antoniades

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-78170-288-8

1-84779-262-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

337

337.01

Soggetti

Globalization

Electronic books.

Greece Politics and government

Ireland Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Theory and agents -- pt. II. Institutional reproduction and social transformation : the hegemonic discourse of globalisation in action (1995-2001) -- pt. III. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

How can we study globalisation in a way that transcends the material/ideational rift? How has globalisation resonated and/or dominated in different national contexts? What role has been played by national political economies and domestic institutions in this process?*Producing globalisation* attempts to scrutinise the nature of the interplay between globalisation and national institutional settings. Rather than taking globalisation as a given, this book explores how concrete political actors produced the phenomenon of globalisation. Such an approach aims to bring human agency and its importance