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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957361503321

Titolo

Historical materialism and globalization / / edited by Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-54140-8

1-134-90036-8

1-134-90029-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Warwick Studies in Globalisation

Altri autori (Persone)

RupertMark

SmithHazel <1954->

Disciplina

337

Soggetti

International economic relations

Globalization - Economic aspects

Materialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Editors' introduction; PART I Globalization: the relevance of historical materialist approaches; 1 Global capital, national states; 2 How many capitalisms? Historical materialism in the debates about imperialism and globalization; 3 The search for relevance: historical materialism after the Cold War; 4 The pertinence of imperialism; 5 A flexible Marxism for flexible times: globalization and historical materialism; PART II Historical materialism as a theory of globalization

6 Class struggle, states and global circuits of capital7 Historical materialism and the emancipation of labour; 8 Making sense of the international system: the promises and pitfalls of contemporary Marxist theories of international relations; 9 The dialectic of globalisation: a critique of Social Constructivism; PART III Historical materialism and the politics of globalization; 10 The class politics of globalisation; 11 Capitalist globalization and the transnationalization of the state; 12 Historical materialism, globalization, and law: competing conceptions



of property

13 The politics of 'regulated liberalism': a historical materialist approach to European integration14 Historical materialism, ideology, and the politics of globalizing capitalism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Now that Soviet style socialism has collapsed upon itself and liberal capitalism offers itself as the natural, necessary and absolute condition of human social life on a worldwide scale, this book insists that the potentially emancipatory resources of a renewed, and perhaps reconstructed, historical materialism are more relevant in today's world than ever before. Rather than viewing global capitalism as an eluctable natural force, these essays seek to show how a dialectic of power and resistance is at work in the contemporary global political economy, producing and contesting new realities and creating conditions in which new forms of collective self determination become thinkable and materially possible. It will be vital, topical reading for anyone interested in international relations, international political economy, sociology and political theory.