Critical Globalization Studies is the first volume to map out a critical approach to the rapidly growing field of gloablization studies. Centrally concerned with global justice, the contributors both scrutinze and recast the subject. As well, the volume serves as a bridge connecting scholars of globalization, the policy world, and the global justice movement. The essays examine a wide range of topics too often left at the margin of globalization studies and in the process raise a host of crucial questions. Unique in its extensive and comprehensive approach, Critical Globalization Studies…mehr
Critical Globalization Studies is the first volume to map out a critical approach to the rapidly growing field of gloablization studies. Centrally concerned with global justice, the contributors both scrutinze and recast the subject. As well, the volume serves as a bridge connecting scholars of globalization, the policy world, and the global justice movement. The essays examine a wide range of topics too often left at the margin of globalization studies and in the process raise a host of crucial questions. Unique in its extensive and comprehensive approach, Critical Globalization Studies develops new and important theoretical perspectives on globalization while engaging global social activism. It is an indispenseable guide for both academics and practitioners.
William Robinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Promoting Polyarchy, which won the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Political Economy of the World System section of the American Sociological Association Richard Appelbaum is Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published opinion pieces in The Los Angeles Times and The AmericanProspect. His most recent books include Behind the Label, States and Economic Development in the Asian Pacific Rim, and Sociology, and introductory textbook.
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Introduction: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies - Continued Debates New Directions Neglected Topics What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? 1. If You Want To Be Relevant: Advice to the Academic from a Scholar-Activist 2. What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? Intellectual Labor and Global Society 3. What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? The Debate on Globalization: Competing Approaches and Perspectives 4. Globalization in World-Systems Perspective 5. Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World-System: Social Movements and Critical Global Studies 6. Generic Globalization Capitalist Globalization and Beyond: A Framework for Critical Globalization Studies 7. Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Errors of Globalism 8. Toward a Critical Theory of Globalization: A Habermasian Approach What Is the Nature of Power and Conflict in the World Today? 9. From Globalization to the New Imperialism 10. The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush 11. Globalization and Development Studies 12. Globalization and Racism: At Home and Abroad 13. Alternative Globalizations: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies 14. The Military-Industrial Complex in Transnational Class Theory New Directions in Globalization Research and Implications of Globalization for Scholarship in the Academy 15. The Many Scales of the Global: Implications for Theory and for Politics 16. Globalization International Migration and Transnationalism: Some Observations Based on the Central American Experience 17. Globalization and the Making of a Transnational Middle Class: Implications for Class Analysis 18. Critical Globalization Studies and a Network Perspective on Global Civil Society 19. Critical Globalization Studies and International Law under Conditions of Postmodernity and Late Capitalism 20. Toward a Sociology of Human Rights: Critica Globalization Studies International Law and the Future of War 21. Reimagining the Governance of Globalization 22. Governing Growth and Inequality: The Continuing Relevance of Strategic Economic Planning 23. The International Division of Reproductive Labor: Paid Domestic Work and Globalization 24. Critical Globalization Studies and Gender 25. Beyond Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism: Globalization Critical Hybridity and Postcolonial Blackness 26. Globalization and the Grotesque Linking Globalization Studies to Global Resistance Movements: Marginalized Voices and Neglected Topics 27. The Implications of Subaltern Epistemologies for Global Capitalism: Transmodernity Border Thinking and Global Coloniality 28. Neoliberal Globalization and Resistance: A Retrospective Look at the East Asian Crisis 29. Historical Dynamics of Globalization War and Social Protest 30. Globalization as a Gender Strategy: Respectability Masculinity and Convertibility across the Vietnamese Diaspora 31. The Red the Green the Black and the Purple: Reclaiming Development Resisting Globalization 32. Transnational Feminism and Globalization: Bringing Third World Women's Voices from the Margin to Center 33. Globalization and Transnational Feminist Networks (or How Neoliberalism and Fundamentalism Riled the World's Women) 34. Labor and the Global Logistics Revolution 35. Fighting Sweatshops: Problems of Enforcing Global Labor Standards 36. Sewing for the Global Economy: Thread of Resistance in Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries 37. A Revolution in Kindness 38. Globalization: A Path to Global Understanding or Global Plunder? Bibliography Contributors Index
Introduction: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies - Continued Debates New Directions Neglected Topics What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? 1. If You Want To Be Relevant: Advice to the Academic from a Scholar-Activist 2. What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? Intellectual Labor and Global Society 3. What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? The Debate on Globalization: Competing Approaches and Perspectives 4. Globalization in World-Systems Perspective 5. Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World-System: Social Movements and Critical Global Studies 6. Generic Globalization Capitalist Globalization and Beyond: A Framework for Critical Globalization Studies 7. Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Errors of Globalism 8. Toward a Critical Theory of Globalization: A Habermasian Approach What Is the Nature of Power and Conflict in the World Today? 9. From Globalization to the New Imperialism 10. The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush 11. Globalization and Development Studies 12. Globalization and Racism: At Home and Abroad 13. Alternative Globalizations: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies 14. The Military-Industrial Complex in Transnational Class Theory New Directions in Globalization Research and Implications of Globalization for Scholarship in the Academy 15. The Many Scales of the Global: Implications for Theory and for Politics 16. Globalization International Migration and Transnationalism: Some Observations Based on the Central American Experience 17. Globalization and the Making of a Transnational Middle Class: Implications for Class Analysis 18. Critical Globalization Studies and a Network Perspective on Global Civil Society 19. Critical Globalization Studies and International Law under Conditions of Postmodernity and Late Capitalism 20. Toward a Sociology of Human Rights: Critica Globalization Studies International Law and the Future of War 21. Reimagining the Governance of Globalization 22. Governing Growth and Inequality: The Continuing Relevance of Strategic Economic Planning 23. The International Division of Reproductive Labor: Paid Domestic Work and Globalization 24. Critical Globalization Studies and Gender 25. Beyond Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism: Globalization Critical Hybridity and Postcolonial Blackness 26. Globalization and the Grotesque Linking Globalization Studies to Global Resistance Movements: Marginalized Voices and Neglected Topics 27. The Implications of Subaltern Epistemologies for Global Capitalism: Transmodernity Border Thinking and Global Coloniality 28. Neoliberal Globalization and Resistance: A Retrospective Look at the East Asian Crisis 29. Historical Dynamics of Globalization War and Social Protest 30. Globalization as a Gender Strategy: Respectability Masculinity and Convertibility across the Vietnamese Diaspora 31. The Red the Green the Black and the Purple: Reclaiming Development Resisting Globalization 32. Transnational Feminism and Globalization: Bringing Third World Women's Voices from the Margin to Center 33. Globalization and Transnational Feminist Networks (or How Neoliberalism and Fundamentalism Riled the World's Women) 34. Labor and the Global Logistics Revolution 35. Fighting Sweatshops: Problems of Enforcing Global Labor Standards 36. Sewing for the Global Economy: Thread of Resistance in Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries 37. A Revolution in Kindness 38. Globalization: A Path to Global Understanding or Global Plunder? Bibliography Contributors Index
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