Synopses & Reviews
This book provides critical assessment of the "globalization thesis" through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations. It examines the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization. The collection offers a wide-ranging critique of those accounts which represent globalization primarily, if not exclusively, as the classic story of European modernity with its attendant narratives of ostensibly unfettered movement of people, unmitigated economic growth and social progress.
Synopsis
This book provides critical assessment of the "globalization thesis" through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, and examination and exploration of the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization.
About the Author
Avtar Brah teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Mary J. Hickman is Reader in European Studies at the University of North London, and Director of the Center for Irish Studies at UNL.
Máirtín Mac an Ghaill is Professor of Education at the University of Sheffield.
Table of Contents
Part I: Imagining the Global * Whither "the Global"?--Avtar Brah, Mary Hickman & Mairtin Mac an Ghail * Imagining Globalization: Power-Geometries of Time-Space--Doreen Massey *
Part II: Risk, Society and Governance * Risk, "Race" and Global Environmental Regulation--Ian Welsh * Global Environmental Change Discourse: The Southern Critique--Marie A. Mater * Governance and the Postnational Policy Process--Roger Sibeon *
Part III: Synergistic/Discrepant Differences * New Orientalisms, Global Capitalism, and the Politics of Synergistic Differences: Discursive Construction of Trade Relations Between the USA, Japan and the East Asian NICs--Ngai-Ling Sum * Reviewing the Western Spectacle: Reflexive Globalization Through the Black Diaspora--Barnor Hesse * Globalization, the Pope and the Gypsies--Thomas Acton *
Part IV: Migration and Globalization * The Political Economy of Immigration Control--Robert Miles * Crossing Borders: Mobility of Trade, Work and People in the Central European Region--Claire Wallace * Migration and Globalization in Intellectual Life: A Case Study of the Post-1956 Exodus from Hungary--Jennifer Platt & Phoebe Isard