Critical Globalization Studies

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Richard P. Appelbaum, William I. Robinson
Psychology Press, 2005 - History - 488 pages

Critical Globalization Studies is the first volume to map out a critical approach to the rapidly growing field of gloablization studies. Centrally concerned with global justice, the contributors both scrutinze and recast the subject. As well, the volume serves as a bridge connecting scholars of globalization, the policy world, and the global justice movement. The essays examine a wide range of topics too often left at the margin of globalization studies and in the process raise a host of crucial questions. Unique in its extensive and comprehensive approach, Critical Globalization Studies develops new and important theoretical perspectives on globalization while engaging global social activism. It is an indispenseable guide for both academics and practitioners.

 

Contents

Advice to the Academic from a ScholarActivist
3
Robinson
11
What Is a Critical Globalization Studies?
19
Globalization in WorldSystems Perspective
33
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55
Errors of Globalism
65
8
75
From Globalization to the New Imperialism
91
Globalization Critical Hybridity
259
Globalization and the Grotesque
269
A Retrospective Look at the East
293
Historical Dynamics of Globalization War and Social Protest
303
Respectability Masculinity
313
Reclaiming Development
323
Bringing Third World Womens
333
Globalization and Transnational Feminist Networks or How Neoliberalism
349

The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W Bush
101
At Home and Abroad
121
The MilitaryIndustrial Complex in Transnational Class Theory
141
Implications for Theory and for Politics
155
Implications
177
Critical Globalization Studies and International Law under Conditions
197
Reimagining the Governance of Globalization
217
Paid Domestic Work
237
Labor and the Global Logistics Revolution
359
Problems of Enforcing Global Labor Standards
369
Thread of Resistance in Vietnamese Textile
379
A Revolution in Kindness
393
Bibliography
403
Contributors
447
Index
455
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