Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and Its Alternatives

by Jon Shefner (Editor), Patricia Fernández-Kelly (Editor)

Overview

The enormous turnout in Washington, DC, for Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration and the worldwide rejoicing at this signal of change offered a tangible demonstration of people’s desire for a new world order. In the waning months of the Bush administration, crushing global recession dealt a critical blow to the neoliberal project. The hegemony of the United States and of the international institutions it has used to maintain its economic dominance has been in decline for some years now, suggesting the need to explore alternative ways to carry out globalization’s imperatives. In Globalization and Beyond, leading scholars take up the challenge of examining the current state of economic crisis and the variety of ways in which different countries (as well as different groups) are responding to it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780271048864
Publisher:	Penn State University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2014
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Jon Shefner is Professor and Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico (Penn State, 2008).

Patricia Fernández-Kelly is in the Sociology Department and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She is the author of For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico’s Frontier, and with Jon Shefner she edited Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America (Penn State, 2006).

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Hegemons, States, and Alternatives

Jon Shefner and Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Part I: Declining and Emerging Hegemons?

1 Beyond the Washington Consensus: A New Bandung?

Giovanni Arrighi and Lu Zhang

2 Regionalism as an Alternative to Globalization: The East Asian Case

Walden Bello

3 China and Mexico in the Global Economy: Comparative Development Models in an Era of Neoliberalism

Gary Gereffi

4 Restructuring Mexico, Realigning Dependency: Harnessing Mexican Labor Power in the NAFTA Era

James M. Cypher and Raúl Delgado Wise

Part II: Alternative Expressions of Global Power

5 Globalization, Trade, and Development: From Territorial to Social Cartographies, from Nation-State/Interstate to Transnational Explanations

William I. Robinson

6 Popular Power in a Neoliberal World: How Global Interdependence Can Foster Democratic Empowerment

Frances Fox Piven

7 Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative Study

Alejandro Portes, Cristina Escobar, and Alexandria Walton Radford

8 Breaking with Market Fundamentalism: Toward Domestic and Global Reform

Fred Block

9 The (De)Coloniality of Knowledge, Life, and Nature: The North American–Andean Free Trade Agreement, Indigenous Movements, and Regional Alternatives

Catherine Walsh

10 From Crisis to Opportunity: Globalization’s Beyond

Jon Shefner and Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Contributors

Index

Editorial Reviews

In this book, a distinguished array of scholars assess recent changes in the structures and processes of capitalist globalization, and their effects on the states and peoples in Latin America and Asia. Their focus is on the diminishing power of the United States, and the rising power of others. The overwhelming conclusion of the theory and research presented here is that the best solutions for the present crisis of neoliberalism will lie in the search for alternative, post-neoliberal strategies and that these will probably take different forms in different places. The volume will provide plenty of food for thought for those in corporate boardrooms, seats of political power, and academe alike.”

—Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics

“Many books deal with the state of contemporary globalization. Most present globalization—for good or ill—as an inevitably determined condition. As the contributors to Globalization and Beyond demonstrate, however, there are alternatives—and agency is not dead. There are indeed many ways to be ‘globalized.’”

—Miguel Angel Centeno, Princeton University

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