Globalization

Some Critical Issues
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-84545-001-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 126 Seiten, Format (B × H): 108 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 109 g

Reihe: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income levels of the salaried middle class and the working class are being eroded, resulting in a downward mobility of these classes. At the same time, unwaged forms of labor, including forced labor and slavery, in poorer regions more and more replace wage labor in developed countries. Informed by an anthropological, humanistic perspective, the contributors in this provocative volume offer critical analyses and alternative visions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chun, Allen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Civil Antiglobalism and the Question of Class

William H. Thornton

Chapter 2. Re-Theorizing Social Movements in a Changing Global Space

Chuang Ya-chung

Chapter 3. Mind the Gap on Post-National Idea(l)s and the Nationalist Reality

Wang Horng-luen

Chapter 4. Postcolonial Discourse in the Age of Globalization thousands of languages, or give rise to new forms of racism or “genism.”

Chu Yiu Wai

Über Autor(innen)

Chun, Allen
Allen Chun was Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and is now Chair Professor in the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He is the author of two major monographs: Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of “Land” in the New Territories of Hong Kong (Routledge, 2000) and Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification (SUNY Press, 2017).