The Ends of Globalization: Bringing Society Back In / Edition 1

by Don Kalb, Marco Van Der Land, Richard Staring, Bart Van Steenbergen, Nico Wilterdink

Overview

This book brings an empirical social science perspective to a public issue on which observers, economists, and business gurus have freely unleashed their abstract models and
jumbo schemes. Written by internationally acclaimed authors, the chapters engage empirically tractable issues that are basic to any overall understanding of the social origins, structures, and consequences of the current wave of globalization. The book brings together in one volume diverse issues related to globalization that are generally dealt with in separate publications, such as migration, social inequality, flows of capital, Americanization and cultural identities, citizenship and collective action, and global governance.
The diversity of topics and up to date discussion makes this book ideal as a text or supplementary reading for courses. As an argument for greater complexity, contingency and contradiction in contemporary debates on globalization, it is essential reading for any scholar or lay reader concerned about contemporary change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847698851
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/29/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.23(d)

About the Author

Don Kalb is an anthropologist and associate professor of general sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Marco van der Land is a sociologist and consultant with A2 stAdsAdviseur in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Richard Staring is an anthropologist with the Rotterdam Institute for Social Policy Research at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Bart van Steenbergen is associate professor in the Department of General Social Sciences at the University of Utrecht. Nico Wilterdink is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and Vice Dean of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Localizing Flows: Power, Paths, Institutions, and Networks
Part 2 Long Term and Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 3 Dimensions of Globaliaztion and the Dynamics of (In)Equalities
Chapter 4 The State and the New Geography of Power
Chapter 5 States and Capital: Globalizations Past and Present
Chapter 6 Class Compromise, Globalization and Technological Change
Chapter 7 The Global Economy: Myth or Reality?
Chapter 8 Globalization, State Sovereignty, and the "Endless" Accumulation of Capital
Part 9 Income Inequality and Flows of Money and Goods
Chapter 10 Income Inequality and Flows of Money and Goods: Introduction
Chapter 11 Inequality and Globalization: Some Evidence from the United States
Chapter 12 Globalization and the New Inequality: A Classical View
Chapter 13 The Internationalization of Capital and Trends in Income Inequality in Western Societies
Part 14 Flows of People
Chapter 15 Flows of People: Globalization, Migration and Transnational Communities
Chapter 16 Globalization, Vacancy Chains, or Migration Networks? Immigrant Employment and Income in Greater Los Angeles, 1970-1990
Chapter 17 A World of Difference: Between the Global and the Local
Chapter 18 Globalization from Below: The Rise of Transnational Communities
Part 19 Beyond the Mosaic: Globalization and Cultural Identity
Chapter 20 Beyond th Mosaic: Questioning Cultural Identity in a Globalizing Age.
Chapter 21 The Dialectics of Globalization and Localization
Chapter 22 Eating Globally: Cultural Flows and the Spread of Spread of Ethnic Restaurants
Chapter 23 Technologies of Togetherness: Flows, Mobility and the Nation State
Part 24 Global Flows, Global Institutions
Chapter 25 Flows and Institutions: Globalization in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 26 Does Equality Travel? A Note on the Institutional Preconditions of Global Equality
Chapter 27 The Quest for Humane Governance in an Era of Globalization
Part 28 Index
Part 29 About the Contributors

Editorial Reviews

The book is firm and accurate in its contention that contemporary globalization is but the lates turn in a much longer historical process.

Journal Of Intercultural Studies

The Ends of Globalization wheels out an impressive range of major authors in the field. The book is successful in bringing together a wide and diverse range of issues in connection with the process of globalization.

British Sociological Association Newsletter

The Ends of Globalization wheels out an impressive range of major authors in the field. The book is successful in bringing together a wide and diverse range of issues in connection with the process of globalization.

The book is firm and accurate in its contention that contemporary globalization is but the lates turn in a much longer historical process.

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