ABSTRACT
The main objective of this volume has been to critically interrogate the many interrelated processes that together comprise globalization. Too often in past research authorities have stressed the singular importance of one or two globalizing forces – information technology, financial capital, for example. Rarely has the range and scope of all the important dimensions of this global “project” been scrutinized. Rarely has an examination of globalization and neoliberal capitalism’s ascendancy and growing structural dominance been accompanied by in-depth exposés of the varied, yet interwoven, “spaces” and “faces” of globalization. This comprehensive and critical assessment of the many dimensions of globalization has, however, put all of them under the microscope: from the deeply structural, to the unruly and unpredictable; from the profoundly destructive and disciplinary to the activist and progressive.
