Critical Theories of Globalization: An Introduction

by C. el-Ojeili, P. Hayden

Overview

This accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of globalization and its consequences from the perspective of social and political critical theory. Thematic chapters provoke student inquiry and the book shows how the views of critical theorists are crucial to understanding the global processes shaping the world today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403986399
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/28/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

CHAMSY EL-OJEILI is Lecturer in Sociology at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is author of From Left Communism to Postmodernism: Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse (2003) and co-editor of Confronting Globalization (2005) and of the journal New Zealand Sociology.

PATRICK HAYDEN is Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Global Politics (2005), John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order (2002) and co-editor of Confronting Globalization (2005) and America's War on Terror (2003).

Table of Contents

List of Boxes Acknowledgements Introduction Theorizing Globalization: Introducing the Challenge Economic Globalization Globalization and Politics Cultural Globalization Resisting Globalization: The Alternative Globalization Movement Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'El-Ojeili and Hayden provide an engaging treatment of a subject worn to death by staid, conventional accounts. Using an accessible version of critical theory, they explore the interconnected sinews of globalization and consider its many tensions and contradictions. Their insights and reflections will be of use to students for many years.' - Randall Germain, Carleton University, Canada

'...this volume is an insightful repository on how theoretical frameworks tend to foreclose certain perspectives on global interactions while favouring others.' - Emilian Kavalski, Political Studies Review

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