Globalization and social change : people and places in a divided world / / Diane Perrons

• Autore: Perrons Diane
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.44
• Soggetto topico: International economic integration; Globalization; Social change
• Note generali: Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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 ; Overturning globalization: rethinking the politics of resistanceLessons from Ladakh? Local responses to globalization and social change; Conceptualizing a new social contract; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Globalization and Social Change challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalization. Rather than seeing globalization as 'the end station of capitalism', it presents the development of this phenomenon as a disruptive and conflicting process.
• Titolo autorizzato: Globalization and social change
• ISBN: 1-134-57865-2; 1-280-06957-0; 0-585-46142-2; 9786610069576; 1-134-57866-0; 0-203-47073-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783711403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in international political economy ; ; 6.