ABSTRACT

Globalization and Social Change challenges conventional thinking regarding the inevitability of globalization. Rather than seeing globalization as 'the end station of capitalism', it presents the development of this phenomenon as a disruptive and conflicting process.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Globalization or the coming-of-age of capitalism
ByJohannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Jacques Hersh

part |2 pages

Part I The intellectual challenge: discourse, ideology, and reality

chapter 1|18 pages

Globalization in question

ByDavid Harvey

chapter 2|9 pages

The future of global polarization

BySamir Amin

chapter 3|21 pages

Globalization and social change

Drowning in the icy waters of commercial calculation
ByManfred Bienefeld

part |2 pages

Part II Critical perspectives on the role of politics

chapter 4|13 pages

The space for politics

Globalization, hegemony, and passive revolution
ByAnne Showstack Sassoon

part |2 pages

Part III East Asia: the last bastion of dirigisme

chapter 7|22 pages

Globalizing India

A critique of an agenda for financiers and speculators
ByAmiya Kumar Bagchi

part |2 pages

Part IV Geopolitics and intersocietal conflicts

part |2 pages

Part V Globalization and forms of resistances

chapter 13|23 pages

Overturning globalization

Rethinking the politics of resistance
ByBarry K. Gills

chapter 14|17 pages

Lessons from Ladakh?

Local responses to globalization and social change
ByMartijn van Beek

chapter 15|16 pages

Conceptualizing a new social contract

ByEllen Brun

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