Globalization, the State, and Violence / Edition 1

by Jonathan Friedman directeur d'études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; pr, Terence Turner, Saskia Sassen author of The Global City, Simone Ghezzi, Enzo Mingione

Overview

Friedman and a distinguished group of contributors offer a compelling analysis of globalization and the lethal explosiveness that characterizes the current world order. In particular, they investigate global processes and political forces that determine networks of crime, commerce and terror, and reveal the economic, social and cultural fragmentation of transnational networks. In a critical introduction, Friedman evaluates how transnational capital represents a truly global force, but geographical decentralization of accumulation still leads to declining state hegemony in some areas and increasing hegemony in others. The authors examine the growth and increasing autonomy of indigenous populations, and the massively destabililizing effect of migration processes. They describe the rapid increase in criminalization of ethnic and immigrant groups as well as an increase in class stratification, creating new forms of social confrontation and violence. In addition to ethnic, identity-based conflict there are analyses of transnational criminal networks, which also represents disintegration of larger homogeneous territories or hierarchical orders. The authors ask us to reevaluate the dynamics of globalization—the contradictions of centralization and fragmentation around the world—as we discover how best to transform these conditions for the future. This research was originally funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Globalization, the State and Violence will be a valuable reference in anthropology, social theory, international politics and economics, ethnic conflict, immigration, and economic history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759102811
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	04/02/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.72(w) x 9.04(h) x 1.01(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Friedman is Directeur d'Études, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and professor of social anthropology at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Globalization, Dis-integration, Reorganization, the Transformations of Violence
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2: Class Projects, Social Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Globalization
Chapter 3: Economic Globalization and the Redrawing of Citizenship
Chapter 4: Beyond the Informal Economy: New Trends in Post-Fordist Transition
Chapter 5: The New Paradigm of Violence
Chapter 6: The Case for Citizenship as Social Contract: A Tale of Two Girls
Chapter 7: American Neoliberalism, "Globalization" and Violence: Reflections from the United States and Southeast Asia
Chapter 8: Killing Me Softly: Violence, Globalization, and the Apparent State
Chapter 9: Sorcery and the Shapes of Globalization, Disjunctions and Continuities in Sri Lanka
Chapter 10: Imagining Monsters: A Structural History of Warfare in Chad
Chapter 11: "Trouble Spots": Projects, Bandits and State Fragmentation
Chapter 12: State-Classes, the Logic of Rentier Power and Social Disintegration: Global Parameters and Local Structures of the Decline of the Congo

Editorial Reviews

Jonathan Friedman's Globalization, the State, and Violence is one of the most recent attempts to make sense of the disparate global conditions that are the subject of globalization discourse.. .. [It] stands on its own as a respectable and well-argued piece of research that makes a valid empirical contribution to globalization literature.

Perspectives on Political Science - Eric A. Heinze

Jonathan Friedman's Globalization, the State, and Violence is one of the most recent attempts to make sense of the disparate global conditions that are the subject of globalization discourse. . . . [It] stands on its own as a respectable and well-argued piece of research that makes a valid empirical contribution to globalization literature.

From the Publisher

Jonathan Friedman's Globalization, the State, and Violence is one of the most recent attempts to make sense of the disparate global conditions that are the subject of globalization discourse.. .. [It] stands on its own as a respectable and well-argued piece of research that makes a valid empirical contribution to globalization literature.

Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 23, No.4, Fall 2003 - Eric A. Heinze