Globalization and the politics of resistance
By: edited by Barry K. Gills ; foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith.
Contributors: Gills, Barry K., 1956-
Series: International political economy series
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: International economic integration; Competition, International; Government, Resistance to; Social movements; Intégration économique internationale; Concurrence internationale; Résistance au gouvernement; Mouvements sociaux
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : the social left and the market system / John Kenneth Galbraith; title: Part I. Globalization and resistance : thinking through politics. Introduction : Globalization and the politics of resistance / Barry K. Gills; title: Overturning 'globalization' : resisting teleology, reclaiming politics / Louise Amoore, Richard Dodgson, Barry Gills, Paul Langley, Don Marshall and Iain Watson; title: Conceptualizing resistance to globalization / Christine B. N. Chin and James H. Mittelman; title: Resisting 'globalization-from-above' through 'globalization-from-below' / Richard Falk; title: Globalization versus community : stakeholding, communitarianism and the challenge of globalization / R. J. Barry Jones; title: Globalization and the transformation of economic rights / Robert Latham; title: Rearticulation of the state in a globalizing world economy / Jeffrey A. Hart and Aseem Prakash; title: Globalization and the retreat of the state / Ian R. Douglas; title: Part II. Strategies of resistance : from the local to the global. Social movements, local places and globalized spaces : implications for 'globalization from below' / Peter Waterman; title: From national resistance to international labour politics / Dimitris Stevis and Terry Boswell; title: Globalization and American common sense : struggling to make sense of a post-hegemonic world / Mark Rupert; title: Globalization and emancipation : from local empowerment to global reform / Jan Nederveen Pieterse; title: 'Corporate welfare' campaigns in North America / Kenneth P. Thomas; title: Neoliberal globalization, social welfare and trade unions in Southeast Asia / Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt; title: Globalization, Islam and resistance / Mustapha Kamal Pasha; title: Mexico, neoliberal restructuring and the EZLN : a neo-Gramscian analysis / Adam David Morton; title: Globalization and local resistance : the case of Shell versus the Ogoni / Cyril I. Obi; title: Structural adjustment and the response of civil society in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe : a comparative analysis / Sandra J. MacLean, Fahimul Quadir and Timothy M. Shaw.