Format:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849640954
Content:
An overview of global politics, the corporate powers who dominate the information age.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Globalization, New Resistances and the Postmodern Age -- THE LONG AND BLOODY MARCH OF GLOBALIZATION -- GLOBALIZATION AND THE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS -- THE METAMORPHOSIS OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY -- OLD AND NEW POLITICS -- Part One. Globalization -- 1 The Epochal Shift -- THE FACTS ON TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY -- A CAUTIONARY NOTE: NATION-STATE BIAS OF ECONOMIC DATA -- THE GLOBALIZATION OF JAPANESE -U.S.CAPITAL RELATIONS -- 2 Epochal Clashes: Third Worldization and the New Hegemon -- THE 20 -80 SOCIETIES -- NEO-LIBERALISM AND THE EPOCH OF GLOBALIZATION -- TRANSNATIONAL CLASS FORMATION AND THE TRANSNATIONAL STATE -- GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONAL HEGEMONY -- 3 High-Tech Robber Barons: Heisting the Information Age -- WORKERS IN THE HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY -- THE KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES -- MONOPOLIZING THE LIFE SCIENCES -- THE MEDIA CONGLOMERATES -- THE HIGH-TECH BANKING INDUSTRY -- THE POLITICAL OPERATIVES OF THE INFORMATION AGE -- Part Two. Politics in a Postmodern Age -- 4 Shades of Postmodern Politics -- IDEOLOGY AND POSTMODERN POLITICS -- ALL THAT 'S LEFT -- POSTMODERN LEFT VS.POSTMODERN RIGHT -- 5 The ( Un) defining of Postmodern Marxism -- MODERNIZATION AND PROGRESS -- THE NEW SOCIAL ACTORS -- THE CASTAWAYS -- 6 The Virtually Existing Global Revolution -- ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES -- AN EVOTOPIA? -- THE SOCIAL CONTEXTUALIZATION OF ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES -- THE PERSONAL AS THE POSTMODERN POLITICAL -- THE BATTLE OF SEATTLE AND THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION -- Part Three. Zapatistas and the Latin American Context(ualization) -- 7 Socialist and Postmodern Politics in the Americas -- THE EPOCHAL SHIFT AND SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONS -- SANDINISTAS ON THE CUSP -- THE CHILEAN TRAGEDY -- THE RESURGENCE OF RURAL MOVEMENTS -- ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES -- THE NEW SOCIAL MOBILIZATIONS.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745316505
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780745316505
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3386422
