Critical Globalization Studies

by Richard P. Appelbaum (Editor), William I. Robinson (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415949613
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/29/2005
Pages:	524
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Robinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Promoting Polyarchy, which won the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Political Economy of the World System section of the American Sociological Association
Richard Appelbaum is Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published opinion pieces in The Los Angeles Times and The American Prospect. His most recent books include Behind the Label, States and Economic Development in the Asian Pacific Rim, and Sociology, and introductory textbook.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies — Continued Debates, New Directions, Neglected Topics, What Is a Critical Globalization Studies?, 1. If You Want To Be Relevant: Advice to the Academic from a Scholar–Activist, 2. What Is a Critical Globalization Studies? Intellectual Labor and Global Society, 3. What Is a Critical Globalization Studies?, The Debate on Globalization: Competing Approaches and Perspectives, 4. Globalization in World-Systems Perspective, 5. Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World-System: Social Movements and Critical Global Studies, 6. Generic Globalization, Capitalist Globalization, and Beyond: A Framework for Critical Globalization Studies, 7. Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Errors of Globalism, 8. Toward a Critical Theory of Globalization: A Habermasian Approach, What Is the Nature of Power and Conflict in the World Today?, 9. From Globalization to the New Imperialism, 10. The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush, 11. Globalization and Development Studies, 12. Globalization and Racism: At Home and Abroad, 13. Alternative Globalizations: Toward a Critical Globalization Studies, 14. The Military-Industrial Complex in Transnational Class Theory, New Directions in Globalization Research and Implications of Globalization for Scholarship in the Academy, 15. The Many Scales of the Global: Implications for Theory and for Politics, 16. Globalization, International Migration, and Transnationalism: Some Observations Based on the Central American Experience, 17. Globalization and the Making of a Transnational Middle Class: Implications for Class Analysis, 18. Critical Globalization Studies and a Network Perspective on Global Civil Society, 19. Critical Globalization Studies and International Law under Conditions of Postmodernity and Late Capitalism, 20. Toward a Sociology of Human Rights: Critica Globalization Studies, International Law, and the Future of War, 21. Reimagining the Governance of Globalization, 22. Governing Growth and Inequality: The Continuing Relevance of Strategic Economic Planning, 23. The International Division of Reproductive Labor: Paid Domestic Work and Globalization, 24. Critical Globalization Studies and Gender, 25. Beyond Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism: Globalization, Critical Hybridity, and Postcolonial Blackness, 26. Globalization and the Grotesque, Linking Globalization Studies to Global Resistance Movements: Marginalized Voices and Neglected Topics, 27. The Implications of Subaltern Epistemologies for Global Capitalism: Transmodernity, Border Thinking, and Global Coloniality, 28. Neoliberal Globalization and Resistance: A Retrospective Look at the East Asian Crisis, 29. Historical Dynamics of Globalization, War, and Social Protest, 30. Globalization as a Gender Strategy: Respectability, Masculinity, and Convertibility across the Vietnamese Diaspora, 31. The Red, the Green, the Black, and the Purple: Reclaiming Development, Resisting Globalization, 32. Transnational Feminism and Globalization: Bringing Third World Women’s Voices from the Margin to Center, 33. Globalization and Transnational Feminist Networks (or How Neoliberalism and Fundamentalism Riled the World’s Women), 34. Labor and the Global Logistics Revolution, 35. Fighting Sweatshops: Problems of Enforcing Global Labor Standards, 36. Sewing for the Global Economy: Thread of Resistance in Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries, 37. A Revolution in Kindness, 38. Globalization: A Path to Global Understanding or Global Plunder?, Bibliography, Contributors, Index