Format:
1 online resource (372 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415105651
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9780203426227
Content:
This book examines the concrete manifestations of the globalizing forces operating in the world today. It unpicks the rhetoric of globalization in political analysis, cultural theory and urban and economic sociology
Note:
Cover -- The Limits of globalization: Cases and Arguments -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Contesting Global Forces -- 1. Introduction - Globalization: Social Process or Political Rhetoric? -- 2. The Futures of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz -- 3. The Global Common: the Global, Local and Personal -- Dynamics of the Women's Peace Movement in the 1980s -- Part II: Homogenized Culture or Enduring Diversity? -- 4. 'Across the Universe': the Limits of Global Popular Culture -- 5. An Asian Orientalism? Libas and the Textures of Postcolonialism -- 6. Elvis in Zanzibar -- 7. Chinese Entrepreneurship: Culture and Economic Actors -- Part III: The National, the International and the Global -- 8. Globalization, Urban Change and Urban Policies in Britain and France -- 9. Air Transport and Globalization: a Sceptical View -- 10. Globalization, the Company and the Workplace: Some Interim Evidence from the Auto Industry in Britain -- 11. Nationalism and the Fall of the Ussr -- Part IV: Theoretical Reflections: Social Theory,cultural Subjectivism and Disembedded Markets -- 12. Globalization as an Emergent Concept -- 13. Wider Horizons with Larger Details: Subjectivity, Ethnicity and Globalization -- 14. The World Market Unbound -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Scott, Alan The Limits of Globalization Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c1997 ISBN 9780415105651
Language:
English
Keywords:
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