Globalization Books

Book SynopsisGlobalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment. Taking key aspects of globalisation in turn - trade, production and finance - the book highlights the relations of power at work that determine whether globalization is managed in a sustainable way and on whose behalf. Each chapter looks in turn at the political ecology of these central pillars of the global economy, reviewing evidence of its impact on diverse ecologies and societies, its governance - the political structures, institutions and policy making processes in place to manage this relationship - and finally efforts to contest and challenge these prevailing approaches. The book makes sense of the relationship between globalisation and the environment using a range of theoretical tools from different disciplines. This helps to place the debate about the compatibility between globalisatiTrade Review'a well-argued, extensively researched exploration of the relationships between globalization and pervasive environmental and social destruction.' Journal of Sustainability Education "In this important book, Peter Newell shows that the relationship between economic globalization and environmental consequences is fundamentally political. Newell shows how, and for whom, the political project of unsustainable economic globalization has been governed, and provides a trenchant assessment of what its transformation will require. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the political task of putting the world economy on a more sustainable footing." Ken Conca, American University "In Globalization and the Environment, Peter Newell provides a much-needed critical analysis of the power that lies at the interface of the global economy and the global ecology. Through an in-depth examination of the governance of global economic relationships, the book masterfully uncovers the complex dynamics between different actors and environmental outcomes." Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo "Long-awaited and worth the wait, this book presents Peter Newell’s compelling analysis of the power relations that connect globalization, governance and ecology. Newell shows that there is no alternative but to move these relations away from neoliberal globalised capitalism and he offers creative practical suggestions for a new, democratically underpinned eco-logic." Jan Aart Scholte, University of Warwick "A well-argued, extensively researched exploration of the relationships between globalization and pervasive environmental and social destruction." The Journal of Sustainability EducationTable of ContentsPreface vi Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations x Tables and Boxes xiii 1 Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power 1 2 The Political Ecology of Globalization 17 3 The Political Economy of Global Environmental Governance: Power(in) Globalization 34 4 Global Trade and the Environment: Whose Rules Rule? 60 5 Global Production and the Environment: Racing to the Top, Bottom or Middle? 88 6 Global Finance and the Environment: Gambling on Green 114 7 Conclusions: Ecologizing Globalization/Globalizing Ecology 145 References 160 Index 186

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Book SynopsisGlobalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment. Taking key aspects of globalisation in turn - trade, production and finance - the book highlights the relations of power at work that determine whether globalization is managed in a sustainable way and on whose behalf. Each chapter looks in turn at the political ecology of these central pillars of the global economy, reviewing evidence of its impact on diverse ecologies and societies, its governance - the political structures, institutions and policy making processes in place to manage this relationship - and finally efforts to contest and challenge these prevailing approaches. The book makes sense of the relationship between globalisation and the environment using a range of theoretical tools from different disciplines. This helps to place the debate about the compatibility between globalisatiTrade Review"In this important book, Peter Newell shows that the relationship between economic globalization and environmental consequences is fundamentally political. Newell shows how, and for whom, the political project of unsustainable economic globalization has been governed, and provides a trenchant assessment of what its transformation will require. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the political task of putting the world economy on a more sustainable footing." Ken Conca, American University "In Globalization and the Environment, Peter Newell provides a much-needed critical analysis of the power that lies at the interface of the global economy and the global ecology. Through an in-depth examination of the governance of global economic relationships, the book masterfully uncovers the complex dynamics between different actors and environmental outcomes." Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo "Long-awaited and worth the wait, this book presents Peter Newell’s compelling analysis of the power relations that connect globalization, governance and ecology. Newell shows that there is no alternative but to move these relations away from neoliberal globalised capitalism and he offers creative practical suggestions for a new, democratically underpinned eco-logic." Jan Aart Scholte, University of Warwick "A well-argued, extensively researched exploration of the relationships between globalization and pervasive environmental and social destruction." The Journal of Sustainability EducationTable of ContentsPreface vi Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations x Tables and Boxes xiii 1 Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power 1 2 The Political Ecology of Globalization 17 3 The Political Economy of Global Environmental Governance: Power(in) Globalization 34 4 Global Trade and the Environment: Whose Rules Rule? 60 5 Global Production and the Environment: Racing to the Top, Bottom or Middle? 88 6 Global Finance and the Environment: Gambling on Green 114 7 Conclusions: Ecologizing Globalization/Globalizing Ecology 145 References 160 Index 186

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Book SynopsisDisplaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Confirms Sloterdijk as the thinking European's Slavoj ?i?ek, as restlessly digressive as his Slovenian counterpart, but even more intellectually reckless and better company." The Guardian "In the last few years Sloterdijk has moved from a figure of relative obscurity in Anglophone debates to being one of the key thinkers of our time. This wide-ranging, engaging, thoughtful and provocative book illustrates why. An unashamedly grand narrative, it engages with both the philosophical and political complexities of the question of the world. It is once again presented in a very fine translation by Wieland Hoban." Stuart Elden, Durham University "Peter Sloterdijk never disappoints when it comes to producing an original point of view. Equally, he never disappoints in the magnitude of his ambitions. In this deeply original and hyper-ambitious book, he presents a history of globalization, no less. In doing so, he resurrects what has become a tired and hackneyed term by reconstituting it as a drama of location but one wherein the notion of location is itself brought into the play as a central element of the plot. And what a play it is, the play of an ever-increasing density of events and an ever-decreasing concentration of purpose which – if we’re not very careful – will produce a 'last orb'. Wonderful stuff which restores our faith in the power of grand narratives." Nigel Thrift, University of WarwickTable of ContentsFirst Part On the Emergence of the World System 1 1 Of Grand Narratives 3 2 The Wandering Star 15 3 Return to Earth 21 4 Globe Time, World Picture Time 27 5 Turn from the East, Entrance into the Homogeneous Space 33 6 Jules Verne and Hegel 36 7 Waterworld: On the Change of the Central Element in the Modern Age 40 8 Fortuna, or: The Metaphysics of Chance 47 9 Risk-Taking 50 10 Delusion and Time: On Capitalism and Telepathy 53 11 The Invention of Subjectivity – Primary Disinhibition and Its Advisers 57 12 Irreflexive Energies: The Ontology of the Headstart 66 13 Nautical Ecstasies 77 14 ‘Corporate Identity’ on the High Seas, Parting of Minds 81 15 The Basic Movement: Money Returns 84 16 Between Justifications and Assurances: On Terran and Maritime Thought 86 17 Expedition and Truth 94 18 The Signs of the Explorers: On Cartography and Imperial Name Magic 98 19 The Pure Outside 109 20 Theory of the Pirate: The White Terror 112 21 The Modern Age and the New Land Syndrome 116 Americanology 1 22 The Five Canopies of Globalization: Aspects of European Space Exportation 120 23 The Poetics of the Ship’s Hold 122 24 Onboard Clerics: The Religious Network 124 25 The Book of Vice-Kings 128 26 The Library of Globalization 131 27 The Translators 134 Second Part The Grand Interior 137 28 Synchronous World 139 29 The Second Ecumene 143 30 The Immunological Transformation: On the Way to Thin-Walled ‘Societies’ 149 31 Believing and Knowing: In hoc signo (sc. globi) vinces 155 32 Post-History 165 33 The Crystal Palace 169 34 The Dense World and Secondary Disinhibition: Terrorism as the Romanticism of the Pure Attack 177 35 Twilight of the Perpetrators and the Ethics of Responsibility: The Cybernetic Erinyes 187 36 The Capitalist World Interior: Rainer Maria Rilke Almost Meets Adam Smith 193 37 Mutations in the Pampering Space 211 38 Revaluation of All Values: The Principle of Abundance 223 39 The Exception: Anatomy of a Temptation 233 Americanology 2 40 The Uncompressible, or: The Rediscovery of the Extended 249 41 In Praise of Asymmetry 258 42 The Heavenly and the Earthly Left 263 Notes 265 Index 293

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Book SynopsisDisplaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Confirms Sloterdijk as the thinking European's Slavoj ?i?ek, as restlessly digressive as his Slovenian counterpart, but even more intellectually reckless and better company." The Guardian "In the last few years Sloterdijk has moved from a figure of relative obscurity in Anglophone debates to being one of the key thinkers of our time. This wide-ranging, engaging, thoughtful and provocative book illustrates why. An unashamedly grand narrative, it engages with both the philosophical and political complexities of the question of the world. It is once again presented in a very fine translation by Wieland Hoban." Stuart Elden, Durham University "Peter Sloterdijk never disappoints when it comes to producing an original point of view. Equally, he never disappoints in the magnitude of his ambitions. In this deeply original and hyper-ambitious book, he presents a history of globalization, no less. In doing so, he resurrects what has become a tired and hackneyed term by reconstituting it as a drama of location but one wherein the notion of location is itself brought into the play as a central element of the plot. And what a play it is, the play of an ever-increasing density of events and an ever-decreasing concentration of purpose which – if we’re not very careful – will produce a 'last orb'. Wonderful stuff which restores our faith in the power of grand narratives." Nigel Thrift, University of WarwickTable of ContentsFirst Part On the Emergence of the World System 1 1 Of Grand Narratives 3 2 The Wandering Star 15 3 Return to Earth 21 4 Globe Time, World Picture Time 27 5 Turn from the East, Entrance into the Homogeneous Space 33 6 Jules Verne and Hegel 36 7 Waterworld: On the Change of the Central Element in the Modern Age 40 8 Fortuna, or: The Metaphysics of Chance 47 9 Risk-Taking 50 10 Delusion and Time: On Capitalism and Telepathy 53 11 The Invention of Subjectivity – Primary Disinhibition and Its Advisers 57 12 Irreflexive Energies: The Ontology of the Headstart 66 13 Nautical Ecstasies 77 14 ‘Corporate Identity’ on the High Seas, Parting of Minds 81 15 The Basic Movement: Money Returns 84 16 Between Justifications and Assurances: On Terran and Maritime Thought 86 17 Expedition and Truth 94 18 The Signs of the Explorers: On Cartography and Imperial Name Magic 98 19 The Pure Outside 109 20 Theory of the Pirate: The White Terror 112 21 The Modern Age and the New Land Syndrome 116 Americanology 1 22 The Five Canopies of Globalization: Aspects of European Space Exportation 120 23 The Poetics of the Ship’s Hold 122 24 Onboard Clerics: The Religious Network 124 25 The Book of Vice-Kings 128 26 The Library of Globalization 131 27 The Translators 134 Second Part The Grand Interior 137 28 Synchronous World 139 29 The Second Ecumene 143 30 The Immunological Transformation: On the Way to Thin-Walled ‘Societies’ 149 31 Believing and Knowing: In hoc signo (sc. globi) vinces 155 32 Post-History 165 33 The Crystal Palace 169 34 The Dense World and Secondary Disinhibition: Terrorism as the Romanticism of the Pure Attack 177 35 Twilight of the Perpetrators and the Ethics of Responsibility: The Cybernetic Erinyes 187 36 The Capitalist World Interior: Rainer Maria Rilke Almost Meets Adam Smith 193 37 Mutations in the Pampering Space 211 38 Revaluation of All Values: The Principle of Abundance 223 39 The Exception: Anatomy of a Temptation 233 Americanology 2 40 The Uncompressible, or: The Rediscovery of the Extended 249 41 In Praise of Asymmetry 258 42 The Heavenly and the Earthly Left 263 Notes 265 Index 293

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Book SynopsisGlobalization and Work challenges conceptions of globalization as a project orchestrated by governments, multinational companies and international agencies.Trade Review"This book should be received gratefully and read avidly by lecturers and students alike. It provides a critical, sociological perspective on a wide-ranging set of themes and issues. It is highly accessible while remaining sophisticated and rigorous in its analysis. It is empirically rich and theoretically informed and the clear commitment to progressive social change should inspire students."Work, Employment and Society''Globalization is reshaping the world of work, creating new challenges for labor studies, as well as for activists and policy-makers. Drawing on examples from around the world, this clear and accessible overview is an invaluable resource for readers hoping to understand, and engage in, a rapidly changing world.'' Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison ''Globalization and Work, written by experienced authorities, is an up-to-date bringing together of sociological research on the topic. Its nuanced distinctive perspective brings out how work is experienced, inequality and power, agency and resistance, and labour migrants and movements. It’s user-friendly and timely reading for students and experts.'' Luke Martell, University of Sussex ''While the title of this book is Globalization and Work, its scope is much wider, admirably showing the centrality of theorizing and grasping substantively both globalization and work in order to understand the contemporary world. It is an impressive work of scholarship and reflection, with something to offer students, teachers and researchers over a wide variety of subject areas.'' Leslie Sklair, London School of EconomicsTable of ContentsList of boxes List of tables and figures Preface: About this book Chapter 1. Globalization and work: an introduction Chapter 2. Consumption, work and identity in a globalizing world Chapter 3. Multinationals, work and employment in the global economy Chapter 4. Globalization and the regulation of international labour standards Chapter 5. Globalization, labour and social movements Chapter 6. Work and the management of labour in ‘global factories’ Chapter 7. Globalization and migrant labour Chapter 8. Globalization and transnational mobility Chapter 9. Work, gender and intersectional inequalities Chapter 10. Globalization and labour conflict Chapter 11. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGlobalization and Work challenges conceptions of globalization as a project orchestrated by governments, multinational companies and international agencies.Trade Review"This book should be received gratefully and read avidly by lecturers and students alike. It provides a critical, sociological perspective on a wide-ranging set of themes and issues. It is highly accessible while remaining sophisticated and rigorous in its analysis. It is empirically rich and theoretically informed and the clear commitment to progressive social change should inspire students."Work, Employment and Society''Globalization is reshaping the world of work, creating new challenges for labor studies, as well as for activists and policy-makers. Drawing on examples from around the world, this clear and accessible overview is an invaluable resource for readers hoping to understand, and engage in, a rapidly changing world.'' Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison ''Globalization and Work, written by experienced authorities, is an up-to-date bringing together of sociological research on the topic. Its nuanced distinctive perspective brings out how work is experienced, inequality and power, agency and resistance, and labour migrants and movements. It’s user-friendly and timely reading for students and experts.'' Luke Martell, University of Sussex ''While the title of this book is Globalization and Work, its scope is much wider, admirably showing the centrality of theorizing and grasping substantively both globalization and work in order to understand the contemporary world. It is an impressive work of scholarship and reflection, with something to offer students, teachers and researchers over a wide variety of subject areas.'' Leslie Sklair, London School of EconomicsTable of ContentsList of boxes List of tables and figures Preface: About this book Chapter 1. Globalization and work: an introduction Chapter 2. Consumption, work and identity in a globalizing world Chapter 3. Multinationals, work and employment in the global economy Chapter 4. Globalization and the regulation of international labour standards Chapter 5. Globalization, labour and social movements Chapter 6. Work and the management of labour in ‘global factories’ Chapter 7. Globalization and migrant labour Chapter 8. Globalization and transnational mobility Chapter 9. Work, gender and intersectional inequalities Chapter 10. Globalization and labour conflict Chapter 11. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisToday, more than at any other point in history, we are aware of the cultural impact of global processes. This has created new possibilities for the development of a cosmopolitan culture but, at the same time, it has created new risks and anxieties linked to immigration and the accommodation of strangers.Trade Review'Like a good teacher, Papstergiadis has the knack of distilling difficult ideas into clear sharp images.' Broadsheet'Defining cosmopolitanism as referring to the social transformation that arises from the mixture of different cultures, Papastergiadis adopts the role of translator and mediator, establishing new dailogues and transcending disputes. Adding to formalist, biographical and social modes of art history, Papastergiadis's cosmopolitan approach introduces new readings where art becomes a medium for constituting the social.'Art & Australia'Cosmopolitanism and Culture is a book of hope. It shows how art and artists can contribute to an aesthetic cosmopolitanism that does not merely reflect difference in the world, but rather provides a way of creating something new from the acknowledgement of, and dealings with, situated differences.'The Australian Educational Researcher'Why read another discussion about cosmopolitanism, even as brilliant, informed and impassioned as this one is? Because, as the foremost scholar and participant observer of the vibrant and much debated movement of art collectives and collaborations, Papastergiadis takes the reader into an arena of aesthetic imaginaries practised, where the crucial experiments in cosmopolitanism as a redeemed form of cultural translation are happening.'George Marcus, University of California, Irvine 'This compelling book opens up once again the whole question of the social imagination. This is the context in which Papastergiadis begins to effect a paradigm shift in the understanding of art and creative industries in our increasingly cosmopolitan global culture.'Scott Lash, Goldsmith College, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgementIntroduction: Waiting for the BarbariansSection I: The Aestheticization of Politics1. Ambient Fears2. Kintetophobia, Motion Fearness3. Hospitality and the Zombification of the OtherSection II: The Politics of Art4. Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism5. Aesthetics Through a Cosmopolitan Frame6. The Global Orientation of Contemporary Art7. Hybridity and Ambivalence8. Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Translation and the Void9. Collaboration in Art and Society10. Mobile MethodsEpilogue: Coming CosmopolitansEndnotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisOne of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But we pay a price for this celebration of hybridity: the non-hybrid figures in our societies are ignored, rejected, silenced or exterminated. This book tells the story of these non-hybrid figures Ð the anti-heroes of our pop culture. The main example of non-hybrids in an otherwise hybridized world is that of deep old age. Hazan shows how we fervently distance ourselves from old age by grading and sequencing it into stages such as the third age', the fourth age' and so on. Aging bodies are manipulated through anti-aging techniques until it is no longer possible to do it anymore, at which point they become un-transformable and non-marketable objects and hence commercially and socially invisible or masked. Other examples are used to Trade ReviewOpening new vistas, blazing new trails, drawing out from invisibility the forcibly fixed - that other, murky side of the glittering world of self-defining and self-asserting, as well as self-congratulating, hybrids: the collateral victims of the universal duty of market-inspired, market-promoted and market-mediated self-creation.Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds An intellectual tour de force. Hazan describes how postmodernity esteems hybridization, networking and assimilation, but at the expense of irreducible, irreconcilable and pure forms of life. He brings an ethnographer's eye to our contemporary aversion towards, and discounting of, essential objects such as the savage, the old and autistic, pain and the Holocaust. Nigel Rapport, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction: Zones and Discourses of Cultural Sturdiness 1 1 Terms of Hybridity: (Non-)Hybridization and (Anti-)Globalization 10 2 Becoming a Non-hybrid: The Very Old as Deadly Others 46 3 Impasses of Hybridity: From Liquidity to Quiddity 91 Conclusion: Bringing the Extra-Cultural Back In 131 References 144 Index 165

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Book SynopsisOne of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs.Trade ReviewOpening new vistas, blazing new trails, drawing out from invisibility the forcibly fixed - that other, murky side of the glittering world of self-defining and self-asserting, as well as self-congratulating, hybrids: the collateral victims of the universal duty of market-inspired, market-promoted and market-mediated self-creation.Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds An intellectual tour de force. Hazan describes how postmodernity esteems hybridization, networking and assimilation, but at the expense of irreducible, irreconcilable and pure forms of life. He brings an ethnographer's eye to our contemporary aversion towards, and discounting of, essential objects such as the savage, the old and autistic, pain and the Holocaust. Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews "Against Hybridity is an excellent contribution to contemporary theoretical debates." American AnthropologistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction: Zones and Discourses of Cultural Sturdiness 1 1 Terms of Hybridity: (Non-)Hybridization and (Anti-)Globalization 10 2 Becoming a Non-hybrid: The Very Old as Deadly Others 46 3 Impasses of Hybridity: From Liquidity to Quiddity 91 Conclusion: Bringing the Extra-Cultural Back In 131 References 144 Index 165

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Book SynopsisA group of academics and practitioners in urban planning and development present an array of essays, primarily focused on Pacific Rim cities, that analyze successful policies and programmes in urban development and explain why they have worked. These essays identify a number of key themes of change that are leading to innovation in strategic planning and management of urban regions/cities in the context of globalization, economic restructuring, social change, and the changing interface between government, the private sector, and the community sectors. These themes include, among others: electronic commerce and its impact on urban development, community involvement in planning, historical preservation, strategies for central city growth and revival, private sector versus government leadership in planning, creation of new cities from scratch contrasted with reinventing existing cities, and tools for urban planning and management. This should be a useful tool to all those actively involveTable of ContentsInternational Urban Settings: Innovations in Planning Approaches (J.F. Williams, R.J. Stimson). Part I: City and Regional Planning Strategies. Planning for a vibrant central city: the case of Nayoya, Japan (A.J. Jacobs). An economic development strategy for Cairns (B. Roberts, J. Dean). 'Model Singapore': crossing urban boundaries (V. Savage, C.P. Pow). The Long Beach story: a California city, repositions itself (R.A. Watson, M. Perez). Shenzben: the pioneer city in China's economic transition (M.Y. Wang et al.). Criteria for urban development processes: managing the virtual organization (E.D.F. Wyeth). Part II: Participation, Partnerships, and Renewal. Against harbor reclamation in Hong Kong: lesson of success (C. Wing Ho). A partnership approach to urban renewal in Brisbane (T. Reddacliff, R.J. Stimson). Railways and reurbanisation in Perth: case studies of success in urban public policy (P. Newman). Kanazawa: creating a livable city through historic preservation (A. Tani et al.). Continuity and change in Macau's historic landscape during a period of transition (B. Taylor). Part III: Special Events and New Technologies. World's fairs and urban development: Lisbon and EXP098 (M.L Wilson, L. Huntoon). Planning issues and the new generation technology economy: comparative regional analysis and the case of the U.S. national capital region (R.R. Stough, R. Kulkarni). Electronic commerce: planning for successful urban and regional development (R.G. Fletcher et al.).

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Book SynopsisThe challenges facing the United Nations as it takes on the critical global issues of the twenty-first century.

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Book SynopsisA unique hybrid of ancient and contemporary conservative thought that offers a radical challenge to Western liberalism.Trade Review"Network Democracy provides a unique and fresh analysis of networked communications and behaviours. The author convincingly combines a classical conservative philosophical perspective with contemporary critical social theory to highlight forms of power, domination, and exploitation underlying the networked society." Timothy Kersey, Kennesaw State University"The overall impact of this text and its implications for interpersonal and political action are distinctive and large. The author's sources are a diverse blend of relevant classics, contemporary writing, and eccentric materials." Blaine Baker, McGill University"An innovative critique of modern liberalism that should interest scholars of both liberal and conservative political thought. Highly Recommended." Choice

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates the profound effect of globalization on relations between the state, civil society, and markets, as well as on collective and individual rights.Trade Review"The French philosopher and activist, Jean Rostand, said: "It is horrible to see everything one detested in the past coming back wearing the colours of the future." Dorval Brunelle's wonderful new book explains how economic globalization has erased the international consensus for justice that emerged out of the horrors of World War II and exposes this new system for the regressive force it really is. - Maude Barlow, National Chairperson, Council of Canadians"Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Preface; Introduction 1 Building the Postwar Order 2 Welfare States and Social Rights 3 Internationalism versus Regionalism in the Cold War 4 Canada and the Cold War: The Shift to Regionalism 5 Canada-US Free Trade: From the Regional to the Global 6 Features of a Global Order 7 Consultation or Contention: Social Movements and Globalization Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.Trade ReviewWith Organizing the Transnational: Labour, Politics, and Social Change, Luin Goldring and Sailaja Krishnamurti present the diversity and expression of transnationalism as both concept and reality. By incorporating non-academics in this discussion, the collection expands the current debate on transnationalism to include the perspectives of non-governmental actors and agencies. ... As such, the book serves as a springboard to share and debate the origins and manifestations of transnational identity in the Canadian context. -- David Dorey, International Settlement Canada, Vol. 21, No. 4, Spring 2008Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Luin Goldring and Sailaja KrishnamurtiPart 1: Institutions, Policies, and Identities1 State and Media Construction of Transnational Communities: A Case Study of Recent Migration from Hong Kong to Canada / Myer Siemiatycki and Valerie Preston2 Emerging Postnational Citizenships in International Law: Implications for Transnational Lives and Organizing / Susan J. Henders3 Transnational Nationalism: Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada / Sarah V. Wayland4 Demystifying Transnationalism: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Promise of Nation Building / Uzma Shakir5 On Tim Hortons and Transnationalism: Negotiating Canadianness and the Role of Activist/Researcher / Leela ViswanathanPart 2: States, Transnational Labour, and Diasporic Capital6 Globalizing Work, Globalizing Citizenship: Community–Migrant Worker Alliances in Southwestern Ontario / Kerry Preibisch7 Forcing Governments to Govern in Defence of Noncitizen Workers: A Story about the Canadian Labour Movement’s Alliance with Agricultural Migrants / Stan Raper8 Transnationalism, Development, and Social Capital: Tamil Community Networks in Canada / R. Cheran9 Dancing Here, “Living” There: Transnational Lives and Working Conditions of Latina Migrant Exotic Dancers / Gloria Patricia and Díaz Barrero10 Transnational Work and the Labour Politics of Gender: A Study of Male and Female Mexican Migrant Workers Employed in Canada / Ofelia Becerril11 Development and Diasporic Capital: Nonresident Indians and the State / Pablo S. BosePart 3: Transnational Organizing and Social Change12 The Institutional Landscapes of Salvadoran Refugee Migration: Transnational and Local Views from Los Angeles and Toronto / Patricia Landolt13 The South Asia Left Democratic Alliance: The Dilemmas of a Transnational Left / Aparna Sundar14 Transnationalism and Political Participation among Filipinos in Canada / Philip F. Kelly15 Transnational Organizing in the Americas / Rusa Jeremic16 The Challenges of Extraterritorial Participation: Peru’s Advisory Councils for Peruvians Abroad / Gaby Motta and Carlos Enrique Terry (with Luin Goldring)Conclusion / Sailaja Krishnamurti and Luin GoldringReferences; Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative, interdisciplinary work explores key institutional fault lines between the tectonic plates of globalization and the insistent demands for individual and collective autonomy.Table of ContentsPreface1 Globalization, Autonomy, and Institutional Change / William D. Coleman, Louis W. Pauly, and Diana BrydonPart 1: Systemic Themes2 The United Nations, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and the Reconstruction of a Multilateral Order / Louis W. Pauly3 International Law, Dispute Settlement, and Autonomy / Guy Gensey and Gilbert R. Winham4 Agricultural Trade and the World Trade Organization / William D. Coleman5 World Heritage Sites and the Culture of the Commons / Caren Irr6 Fantasies at the International Whaling Commission: Management, Sustainability, Conservation / Petra Rethmann7 Globalization, Autonomy, and Global Institutions: Accounting for Accounting / Sarah Eaton and Tony Porter8 Transnational Law and Privatized Governance / A. Claire Cutler9 Transnational Actors and Global Social Welfare Policy: The Limits of Private Institutions in Global Governance / Michael Webb and Emily SinclairPart 2: Regional Variations10 Differentiated Autonomy: North America's Model of Transborder Governance / Stephen Clarkson11 Sovereignty Revisited: European Reconfigurations, Global Challenges, and Implications for Small States / Ulf Hedetoft12 Subsidiarity and Autonomy in the European Union / Ian Cooper13 Institutions of Arctic Ordering: The Cases of Greenland and Nunavut / Natalia Loukacheva14 Conclusion: Institutions, Autonomy, and Complexity / Louis W. PaulyNotes and Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisMilitia Myths traces the cultural history of the citizen soldier from 1896 to 1921, an ideal that lay at the foundation of how Canadians experienced and remember the First World War.Trade ReviewIn the superb analysis of Militia Myths ...Canadian historian James Wood recaptures the ideological origins and evolution of the conceptual foundations that shaped Canada’s Army during its most formative years ... he has in a single effort replaced many outdated and erroneous myths about Canada’s Army with solid evidence-based research and analysis, effectively delivering what will undoubtedly become a must-have book in every Canadian military library. Militia Myths is one of the best books in Canadian military - history I’ve read this year, and it is highly recommended to all. -- Major Andrew Godefroy * Canadian Army Journal, V. 14.1 *Wood’s work expands our knowledge of the Canadian militia beyond the elite imperialists and general officers commanding. By a close study of the Canadian Military Gazette and the speeches of militia officers and advocates, he shows the complex varieties of thought regarding the role of the citizen soldier in Canadian defense. By doing so he muddies the waters of the traditional historiography surrounding imperialism and the militia in Canada. More a history of military thought than a discursive study of popular conceptions, the work will appeal to academic military historians, while leaving gendered analysis and discourse and identity studies to the social historians. -- Jack L. Granatstein * H-War *This is a very good study of the development of the Canadian citizen soldier ... that makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literature in the field of Canadian military history. -- Matthew Tudgen * Canadian Military Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring 2012 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Canadian Ideas of the Citizen Soldier1 A Military Spirit in Canada, 1896-982 An Army for Empire, 1898-19013 “Don’t Call Me Tommy,” 1901-044 “Who Are You Going to Fight?” 1905-085 Continental Commitments, 1909-116 Involuntary Action, 1911-147 War and Citizenship, 1914-178 Victory and Vindication, 1918-21Conclusion: A Citizen’s Duty in “Canada’s Century”AppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at how indigenous peoples in various contexts have thought about, and responded to, the pressures that globalization has on their cultural, political, and geographical autonomy.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Introduction1 Reconfiguring the Web of Life: Indigenous Peoples, Relationality, and Globalization / Mario Blaser, Ravi de Costa, Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman2 Ayllu: Decolonial Critical Thinking and (An)other Autonomy / Marcelo Fernández OscoPart 2: Emergences3 Neoliberal Governance and James Bay Cree Governance: Negotiated Agreements, Oppositional Struggles, and Co-Governance / Harvey A. Feit4 Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the Cultivation of Autonomy / Erich Fox Tree5 Global Activism and Changing Identities: Interconnecting the Global and the Local – The Grand Council of the Crees and the Saami Council / Kristina Maud Bergeron6 Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization: Self-Determination through Autonomous Media Creation / Rebeka Tabobondung7 Reconfiguring Mare Nullius: Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous Sea Rights, and the Divergence of Domestic and International Norms / Colin Scott and Monica MulrennanPart 3: Absences8 Making Alternatives Visible: The Meaning of Autonomy for the Mapuche of Cholchol (Ngulumapu, Chile) / Pablo Marimán Quemenado9 Twentieth-Century Transformations of East Cree Spirituality and Autonomy / Richard J. “Dick” PrestonPart 4: Hope10 The International Order of Hope: Zapatismo and the Fourth World War / Alex KhasnabishAfterword / Ravi de CostaWorks CitedContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book looks at how indigenous peoples in various contexts have thought about, and responded to, the pressures that globalization has on their cultural, political, and geographical autonomy.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Introduction1 Reconfiguring the Web of Life: Indigenous Peoples, Relationality, and Globalization / Mario Blaser, Ravi de Costa, Deborah McGregor, and William D. Coleman2 Ayllu: Decolonial Critical Thinking and (An)other Autonomy / Marcelo Fernández OscoPart 2: Emergences3 Neoliberal Governance and James Bay Cree Governance: Negotiated Agreements, Oppositional Struggles, and Co-Governance / Harvey A. Feit4 Global Linguistics, Mayan Languages, and the Cultivation of Autonomy / Erich Fox Tree5 Global Activism and Changing Identities: Interconnecting the Global and the Local – The Grand Council of the Crees and the Saami Council / Kristina Maud Bergeron6 Indigenous Perspectives on Globalization: Self-Determination through Autonomous Media Creation / Rebeka Tabobondung7 Reconfiguring Mare Nullius: Torres Strait Islanders, Indigenous Sea Rights, and the Divergence of Domestic and International Norms / Colin Scott and Monica MulrennanPart 3: Absences8 Making Alternatives Visible: The Meaning of Autonomy for the Mapuche of Cholchol (Ngulumapu, Chile) / Pablo Marimán Quemenado9 Twentieth-Century Transformations of East Cree Spirituality and Autonomy / Richard J. “Dick” PrestonPart 4: Hope10 The International Order of Hope: Zapatismo and the Fourth World War / Alex KhasnabishAfterword / Ravi de CostaWorks CitedContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisCan national loyalties be reconciled with larger commitments to global well-being?Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World / Will Kymlicka and Kathryn Walker Part 1: The Theory of Rooted Cosmopolitanism 1 Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism / Kok-Chor Tan 2 A Defence of Moderate Cosmopolitanism and/or Moderate Liberal Nationalism / Patti Lenard and Margaret Moore 3 Universality and Particularity in the National Question in Quebec / Joseph-Yvon Thériault 4 Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Unpacking the Arguments / Daniel Weinstock 5 We Are All Compatriots / Charles Blattberg Part 2: The Practice of Rooted Cosmopolitanism 6 Cosmopolitanizing Cosmopolitanism? Cosmopolitan Claims-Making, Interculturalism, and the Bouchard-Taylor Report / Scott Schaffer 7 A World of Strangers or a World of Relationships? The Value of Care Ethics in Migration Research and Policy / Yasmeen Abu-Laban 8 The Doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect: A Failed Expression of Cosmopolitanism / Howard Adelman 9 Climate Change and the Challenge of Canadian Global Citizenship / Robert Paehlke Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at how Canadians are responding to the forces of globalization through collectively owned enterprises.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Where We Stand – Place, Enterprise, and Community / Brett FairbairnPart 1: Globalization, Autonomy, and Cohesion1 Globalization, Co-operatives, and Social Cohesion / William D. Coleman2 “Nuna Is My Body”: What Northerners Can Teach about Social Cohesion / Isobel M. FindlayPart 2: Social Enterprises and Networks3 “I Felt That I Had Lost Myself”: Credit Unions, Economies, and the Construction of Locality / Brett Fairbairn with Rob Dobrohoczki4 Autonomy and Identity: Constraints and Possibilities in Western Canada’s Co-operative Retailing System / Jason Heit, Murray Fulton, and Brett Fairbairn5 Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis: Atlantic Canada’s Consumers’ Community Co-operative / Leslie H. BrownPart 3: New Partnerships and Models6 Reclaiming Community: Co-operatives and Sectoral Governance in Quebec Forestry / Patrick Gingras and Mario Carrier7 Rebuilding “Home” in a Transient World: Globalization, Social Exclusion, and Innovations in Co-operative Housing / Mitch Diamantopoulos and Jorge Sousa8 Co-operation Reinvented: New Partnerships in Multi-Stakeholder Co-operatives / Jean-Pierre Girard and Geneviève Langlois9 “To See Our Communities Come Alive Again with Pride”: (Re)Inventing Co-operatives for First Nations’ Needs / Lou Hammond Ketilson10 Imagination and the Future: Learning from Social Enterprises / Brett FairbairnAppendix: The Enterprise with Many Names: Establishing a Common Language / Brett FairbairnIndex

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at how Canadians are responding to the forces of globalization through collectively owned enterprises.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Where We Stand – Place, Enterprise, and Community / Brett FairbairnPart 1: Globalization, Autonomy, and Cohesion1 Globalization, Co-operatives, and Social Cohesion / William D. Coleman2 “Nuna Is My Body”: What Northerners Can Teach about Social Cohesion / Isobel M. FindlayPart 2: Social Enterprises and Networks3 “I Felt That I Had Lost Myself”: Credit Unions, Economies, and the Construction of Locality / Brett Fairbairn with Rob Dobrohoczki4 Autonomy and Identity: Constraints and Possibilities in Western Canada’s Co-operative Retailing System / Jason Heit, Murray Fulton, and Brett Fairbairn5 Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis: Atlantic Canada’s Consumers’ Community Co-operative / Leslie H. BrownPart 3: New Partnerships and Models6 Reclaiming Community: Co-operatives and Sectoral Governance in Quebec Forestry / Patrick Gingras and Mario Carrier7 Rebuilding “Home” in a Transient World: Globalization, Social Exclusion, and Innovations in Co-operative Housing / Mitch Diamantopoulos and Jorge Sousa8 Co-operation Reinvented: New Partnerships in Multi-Stakeholder Co-operatives / Jean-Pierre Girard and Geneviève Langlois9 “To See Our Communities Come Alive Again with Pride”: (Re)Inventing Co-operatives for First Nations’ Needs / Lou Hammond Ketilson10 Imagination and the Future: Learning from Social Enterprises / Brett FairbairnAppendix: The Enterprise with Many Names: Establishing a Common Language / Brett FairbairnIndex

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Book SynopsisLeading scholars investigate the complex role that competing moral economies play in ethnic and nationalist conflicts.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims / Bruce J. Berman and Stephen J. Larin1 Moral Economy, Hegemony, and Moral Ethnicity: The Cultural Politics of Modernity / Bruce J. Berman2 Majimboism and Kenya’s Moral Economy of Ethnic Territoriality / Gabrielle Lynch3 Rights, Wrongs, and Reciprocity: Change and Continuity among Kenyan Maasai / Lotte Hughes4 “Economic Man in East Africa”: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Moral Economy in Tanzania / Emma Hunter5 China: The Moral Economy of Empire / André Laliberté6 Establishing a Buddhist Economy in Thailand: Competing Perspectives on Moral Economy in State and Society / Manuel Litalien7 From Patron-Clientelism to Ethnonationalism: Moral Economy and Transitions in Palestinian Arab Elite Political Mobilization in Israel / Oded Haklai8 Modernity, the Canadian State, and the Shifting Politics of Ethnocultural Claims Making / Yasmeen Abu-Laban9 Aboriginal Identities, Moral Economies, and the Canadian Settler State / Leslie DoucetConclusion: Moral Economy and the Analysis of Ethnic and Nationalist Politics / André Laliberté and Stephen J. LarinIndex

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Book SynopsisWhatever deficits remain in the Canadian project to make justice available to all, class actions have been heralded as a success. The theme of access to justice runs throughout the discourse on collective litigation, but what do access and justice mean in this context? Class actions have been employed over the past several decades to overcome barriers for those who would otherwise have no recourse to the courts. Class Actions in Canada critically and empirically examines whether mass litigation is meeting this primary goal. First proposing a conceptualization that moves beyond mere access to a court procedure, leading expert Jasminka Kalajdzic then methodically assesses survey data and case studies to determine how class action practice fulfills or falls short of its objectives. With class actions becoming increasingly controversial in the United States and collective redress mechanisms being cautiously adopted elsewhere, this is a timely expTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Facts: Survey Results2 The Facts: Two Case Studies3 Access to Justice4 Selecting Cases5 Settlements6 Fees7 CostsConclusionAppendices NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisGood Governance in Economic Development examines what happens at the intersection of international and Chinese conceptions of transparency, accountability, and public participation.Table of ContentsForeword / Pitman B. Potter1 International Good Governance Norms between the Global and the Local: China, Transparency, and Accountability / Sarah Biddulph and Ljiljana BiukovićPart 1: International Principles of Good Governance, Transparency, and Accountability2 Belts That Fasten Roads to Prosperity and Development: Transparency and Governance of New International Banks / Ljiljana Biuković3 Corporate Legal Consciousness in Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the United Nations' Responsibility to Respect Human Rights: New Challenges for Global Governance / Lesley A. Jacobs4 Regulatory Change, Good Governance, and Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Investment Law / Moshe Hirsch5 Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and Human Rights Impact Assessments: Coordinating Compliance between International Trade, Human Rights, Labour Rights, and Good Governance in Colombia / Alison Yule6 Transparency Obligations in International Investment and Trade Treaties: Governance Reforms in Shanghai’s Pilot Free Trade Zone / Wang HaifengPart 2: Case Studies from China: Domestic Engagement with Good Governance Norms7 Transparency and Accountability in Governance in China: Evaluating Legal Reforms / Sarah Biddulph and Wang Haifeng8 The Concept of Public Participation: Planning and Housing Resumption Decisions in Shanghai / Sarah Biddulph9 The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Mechanisms on Bureaucratic Inertia: A Case Study of Work Safety Regulation / Sarah Biddulph10 New Trends in Promoting Capacity in Environmental Governance in China / He WeidongConclusion: Who Are the Important Actors in Shaping the Good Governance, Transparency, and Accountability Principles? / Sarah Biddulph and Ljiljana BiukovićIndex

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Book SynopsisGlobalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality uses diverse empirical approaches to reveal the sometimes unexpected effects of trade and globalization on poverty and inequality.Table of Contents1 Indonesia: Economic History, Growth, Poverty, Income Inequality, and Trade / Richard Barichello2 Globalization and Inequality: Causes, Consequences, and Cures / James W. Dean and Colin McLean3 Trade Expansion in Indonesia: The Impact on Poverty and Income Inequality / Teguh Dartanto, Yusuf Sofiyandi, and Nia Kurnia Sholiha4 Is Globalization Associated with Income Inequality? The Case of Indonesia / Yessi Vadila and Budy P. Resosudarmo5 A Child’s Growth is a Nation’s Growth: Children’s Well-being and Inequality in Indonesia / Santi Kusumaningrum, Arianto Patunru, Clara Siagian, and Cyril Bennouna6 Reducing Rural Poverty through Trade? Evidence from Indonesia / Richard Barichello and Faisal Harahap7 Is Greater Openness to Trade Good? What are the Effects on Poverty and Inequality? / Arianto Patunru8 Coffee Eco-Certification: New Challenges for Farmers’ Welfare / Bustanul Arifin9 Understanding Visual Disability as a Development and Global Human Rights Issues: A Demographic Perspective in Indonesia / Evi Nurvidya Arifin and Aris Ananta10 Urban Property Rights: A View from Jakarta / Michael Leaf11 Indonesia: The Links between Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality / Richard SchwindtList of Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisWhereas previous research concentrated on articulating what global strategies look like in large multinational companies with decades of experience in operations abroad, The Leap to Globalization focuses on how globalizing is realized over time in companies that start from a narrow geographic base. Three characteristics differentiate globalizing as observed in current practice from simple international expansion. First, globalization implies a redefinition of customer value; second, globalizing is an entrepreneurial process that transforms the company; and third, speed plays an essential role in globalization.Table of ContentsForeword (S. Ghoshal). Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Understanding the Value in Globalization. 2. Facing the Risks of Globalization. 3. Projection: Acting "As If " Global. 4. Absorption: Tackling the Risks of Globalizing. 5. Harmonization: Adapting to Changing Risks Over Time. 6. The Leap to Globalization: A Synthesis. Conclusion: The Future of the New Globalizers. Appendix: Research Methods. Bibliography. Index. The Authors.

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Book SynopsisGoing Global helps locally based organizations find connections in the ever expanding global arena of ideas. This book shows readers how to connect to the global community and benefit from this network while remaining true to the mission of their organizations and without dramatically altering existing programs or operations.Trade Review"I found the book to be an excellent primer for a nonprofit thinking about entering or deepening its international engagement." (Charity Channel, 4/14/2004)Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Part One: Why Become More International? How Your Organization Can Benefit. 1. Finding Your Organization’s Place in an Increasingly Global World. 2. Expanding Your Global Outreach by Developing a Global Mind-Set. 3. Integrating Global Perspectives into Strategic Planning. Part Two: The Initial Stages of International Program Development. 4. Using Your Annual Conference and Meetings as an International Gateway. 5. Networking to Discover What Other Organizations Are Out There. 6. Entering the More Formal World of Strategic Alliances and Partnerships. 7. Considering Other Possible International Program Ideas. Part Three: International Operational Issues. 8. Bringing International Members into Your Decision-Making Groups. 9. Expanding Your International Reach Through Your Membership. 10. Communicating Your Messages Effectively. 11. Planning for Technical and Logistical Issues. Part Four: Learning from International Models. 12. Lessons to Be Learned from the Global Organization. 13. Comparative Examples from Other Countries. 14. Looking Forward. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the twin forces of ideological and technological change that make globalization the most important issue facing executives. This book shows how many companies who have developed a global strategy, face the challenge of balancing a multinational presence with demands of the 'unglobal consumer' who does not have a 'one size fits all' need.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part One: Developing the Global Mind-Set. 1. Theodore Levitt’s “The Globalization of Markets”: An Evaluation After Two Decades (Richard S. Tedlow, Rawi Abdelal). 2. “The Globalization of Markets”: A Retrospective with Theodore Levitt (Stephen A. Greyser). 3. “The Globalization of Markets” Revisited: Japan After Twenty Years (Hirotaka Takeuchi). Part Two: Managing the Global Business. 4. Rooting Marketing Strategy in Human Universals (Luc Wathieu, Yu Liu, Gerald Zaltman). 5. Organizing Multinational Companies for Collaborative Advantage (Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria). Part Three: Managing Global Products. 6. Global Standardization versus Localization: A Case Study and a Model (Pankaj Ghemawat). 7. It’s a Small World After All . . . or Is It? The State of Globalization in the Worldwide Automotive Industry (Nick Scheele). Part Four: Managing Global Brands. 8. Strategies for Managing Brand and Product in International Markets (Hans-Willi Schroiff, David J. Arnold). 9. Managing the Global Brand: A Typology of Consumer Perceptions (Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch, Earl L. Taylor). Part Five: Managing Global Services. 10. The Globalization of Marketing Services (Martin Sorrell). 11. Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business (Alvin J. Silk, Ernst R. Berndt). Part Six: Managing Global Supply and Distribution. 12. Managing Global Supply Chains (Ananth Raman, Noel Watson). 13. Globalization of Retailing (David E. Bell, Rajiv Lal, Walter Salmon). Part Seven: Setting the Global Agenda. 14. The Empire Strikes Flak: Powerful Companies and Political Backlash (Daniel Litvin). 15. Globalization and the Poor (V. Kasturi Rangan, Arthur McCaffrey). Notes and References. The Authors. Index.

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Book SynopsisBangladeshi villagers with mobile phones helped build what is now a thriving $200m company. What is the lesson for the rest of the world? In You Can Hear Me Now, Nick Sullivan answers this question through the compelling story of Iqbal Quadir, a local entrepreneur.Trade ReviewUntil recently, the outlook for many of the poorest people in Bangladesh was dismal. Despite previous long-term aid from the international community to improve the country's infrastructure and economy, sustainable development was hampered by corruption and governmental inefficiency. This book tells the story of Western-trained entrepreneur Iqbal Quadir, the driving force behind the creation of GrameenPhone, the largest Bangladeshi GSM (Global System for Mobile) cell-phone operation. Quadir had the innovative idea of using local Western-trained entrepreneurs to help villagers attain micro-loans funded by foreign investors (and generated by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yanus) and then showing villagers how to operate cell-phone leasing businesses. Sullivan refers to this successful business model as the "external combustion engine" because of its impressive multiplier effects on economic growth. Applications of this model in other poverty-stricken areas worldwide have repeatedly yielded similar results. This book offers valuable insights about the use of cell phones and technology-based investments to generate wealth and demonstrates that entrepreneurship may be more fruitful than aid. This valuable work can be effectively integrated into public administration, global business, and human resource academic courses. —Caroline Geck, Kean Univ. Lib., Union, NJ (Library Journal, February 2007) "…describes an inclusive capitalism that engages and enables many of the three billion people living on $1 a day" (Credit Control, June 2007)Table of ContentsPreface vii The Author xv Introduction: The Three Forces of xvii External Combustion Part I: The GrameenPhone Story 1. Connectivity Is Productivity 3 2. Dish-Wallahs of Delhi (and Other 17 Early Models) 3. Cell Phone as Cow: A New Paradigm in Search of Investors 35 4. On the Money Trail in Scandinavia 51 5. Building a Company 71 6. Building a Network 87 Part II: Transformation Through Technology 7. Wildfire at the Bottom of the Pyramid 107 8. Cell Phone as Wallet 125 9. Wealth Creation and Rural Income Opportunities 145 10. Beyond Phones: In Search of a New “Cow” 161 11. Eyeing the Dhaka Stock Exchange 181 Epilogue 199 Notes 203 Resources 215 Index 217

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Book SynopsisJonathan Kirshner explains how the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 altered the international balance of power, affecting the patterns and pulse of world politics.Trade Review...[H]ighly recommended especially for those interested in understanding the paradigm shifts that happened in the 1970s and 1980s....[E]ssential reading. -- Mehment Kerem Coban * Asian Journal of Public Affairs *It is always a pleasure to read somethign by Jonathan Kirshner. His style is lucid, informed, and replete with a wry sense of humor. Above all, he is emphatic. Not for Kirshner are the meek caveats of classical scholarship. His intention is to tell us what he really thinks, in as unvarnished a fashion as possible. -- Benjamin J. Cohen * Political Science Quarterly *It is sometimes said that nobody saw the global financial crisis of 2008 coming. But that is not entirely accurate. There were analysts who predicted trouble ahead, and few did so with the uncanny clarity of Jonathan Kirshner.... It is worth taking note of what Kirshner has to say about the financial system today. His views are not reassuring. He argues that 'the fundamental causes' of the 2008 crisis have not been addressed. On the contrary, critical elements—banks that are too big to fail and risky financial practices—are still in place. As Kirshner puts it, the fire of the financial crisis was extinguished at great cost, but 'the firetrap remained.'... Kirshner's record suggests that he is better than most at looking beyond the transient moment and identifying the underlying trends. His latest book is provocative, interesting and well worth reading. -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times *Jonathan Kirshner contributes a timely and incisive analysis to the debate on American relative decline. While American Power after the Financial Crisis comprehensively deals with the fallout from the great recession in 2008, its real contribution is its placement of the crisis within its braoder historical context. -- Kit Waterman * H-Diplo *Jonathan Kirshner's American Power After the Financial Crisis is a fascinating account of the origins of the crisis, the historical lessons that should have, but didn’t, prevent it, and most important, what long-term effects the crisis will have on American power and influence in world politics, particularly in Asia.... Kirshner begins his exceedingly well-written analysis by looking at 'the great teacher' of economics, the Great Depression, and explains how flawed ideas about global trade and finance led political leaders to adopt policies in response to the 1929 financial crisis that pushed the world economy into a downward spiral, ultimately exacerbating tensions that contributed to the Second World War.... In Kirshner’s excellent account, there is a bright side yet. One of the effects of the crisis is that it 'has brought about what I term "a new heterogeneity of thinking" with regard to ideas about how to best manage domestic and international money and finance.' That may be just the opening policy-makers in China and the rest of the world need. -- David Plott * Global Asia *The heart of Kirshner's argument is that America's failure to respond to the crash of 2007–08 with meaningful reforms is eroding our economic and political influence, and heralding a more diverse world economic order.... While much of American Power after the Financial Crisis focuses on what happens next, as the world rejects America's 'financialized' market model and different countries try different approaches, there is no question about what the author believes could halt our slide: reregulating the financial sector. 'Letting 'the market rule in finance,' Kirshner argues, 'makes as much sense as letting the market decide where and how nuclear waste will be disposed of.'. -- Courtney McBride * National Journal *Table of ContentsPreface1. The Global Financial Crisis as World Politics2. Learning from the Great Depression3. From the First to the Second US Postwar Order4. Seeds of Discord: The Asian Financial Crisis5. The New American Model and the Financial Crisis6. The Crisis and World Politics7. The Crisis and the International Balance of Power8. Conclusions, Expectations, and SpeculationsNotes Index

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Book SynopsisThe IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy.from the IntroductionThe greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes readers inside these institutions and the governments they work with. Ngaire Woods brilliantly decodes what they do and why they do it, using original research, extensive interviews carried out across many countries and institutions, and scholarship from the fields of economics, law, and politics.The Globalizers focuses on both the political context of IMF and World BankTrade ReviewAfter World War II, the winning powers created the IMF, to bring stability to the international monetary system, and the World Bank, to channel investment into development and reconstruction projects. Woods examines both institutions and how they have preformed these roles in regard to underdeveloped borrower nations. She chronicles the involvement of the IMF and the World Bank with Mexico, Russia, and sub-Saharan Africa. In a very balanced analysis, she shows that both institutions have failed in many instances to improve the lot of such countries, too often promoting policies to please their powerful shareholder nations such as the United States while failing to understand and deal with the special needs of borrower nations. She concludes by recommending six reforms for the two institutions to make them more open and equitable in their advertising and lending. * Library Journal *Perhaps mirroring public debate on the issue, scholarship on the role of the IMF and the World Bank in economic development has often treated these institutions as mere conduits of U.S. interest. In The Globalizers, Ngaire Woods seeks to amend this perception, offering a rich account of their activities that emphasizes the inner workings of these institutions and their negotiations with policymakers in developing countries. As such, The Globalizers provides an invaluable look at the processes that shape the IMF and World Bank's role in the global economy. * International Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Whose Institutions?2. The Globalizing Mission3. The Power to Persuade4. The Mission in Mexico5. Mission Creep in Russia6. Mission Unaccomplished in Africa7. Reforming the IMF and World BankReferences Index

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Book SynopsisSo, and Lu Zhang.Trade ReviewThis volume is a significant, timely contribution to the discussion of China's role in the world economy... Not only a must read for those studying the Chinese economy, this book will likely be welcomed and debated by observers of capitalist development on the world stage. Essential. Choice 2010 This volume is a rare and important contribution to understanding China's rise in the context of global capitalism. Despite the questions raised, this reviewer enjoyed reading all the chapters and learned much from each author who contributed to this excellent collection. The volume is a must read for anyone who is intrigued by China's past and its contemporary role in the global system. -- Lu Zheng Contemporary Sociology 2010 Ho-fung Hung... provides an excellent short background on the start of China's economic miracle, and then evolves into providing an eye-opening view of the current status of important Chinese clothes and shoe manufacturers. -- Loyd E. Eskildson Basil and Spice 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: The Three Transformations of Global CapitalismChapter 2. China's Market Economy in the Long RunChapter 3. Rethinking the Chinese Developmental MiracleChapter 4. Big Suppliers in Greater China: A Growing Counterweight to the Power of Giant RetailersChapter 5. The "Rise of China" and the Changing World Income DistributionChapter 6. China's Economic Ascent and Japan's Raw-Materials PeripheriesChapter 7. Sino-Russian Geoeconomic Integration: An Alternative to Chinese Hegemony on a Shrinking PlanetChapter 8. China and the U.S. Labor MovementChapter 9. China as an Emerging Epicenter of World Labor UnrestChapter 10. A Caveat: Is the Rise of China Sustainable?List of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten with precision and skill, Globalization Unplugged will spark controversy on both sides of the globalization debate and help deflate the rhetoric of both advocates and detractors.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Life and Times of Globalization: An Unauthorized Biography 2 Marx, Globalization, and Modernity:What Is Old Becomes New Again 3 The World Economy 4 Trade 5 Foreign Direct Investment 6 The Financial Economy 7 The Retreat of the Nation-state 8 The Postwar Economy Conclusion Appendix: Note on Statistical Sources Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe banana is the world's most important fresh fruit commodity. Little more than a century old, the global banana industry began in the late 1880s. The Banana demystifies the banana trade and its path toward globalization. It reviews interregional relationships in the industry and the changing institutional framework governing global trade and assesses the roles of major players.Trade Review"Because of its long-term comparative nature, The Banana should become obligatory reference to those studying the political economy of the banana industry during the twentieth century."—Marcelo Bucheli, EH.net"The Banana provides an exceptionally clear, informative, and comprehensive account of the banana's place in history. . . . A must-read for anyone interested in this important commodity, globalization, trade disputes, and the histories of Latin America and the Caribbean."—Steve Striffler, Journal of Latin American Geography"For those interested in understanding the contemporary configuration of an industry that is truly global in its reach, The Banana is an excellent place to start."—Mark Moberg, Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbbreviations Part 1. A Banana Plantation Model Emerges in Latin America1. The Creation of the Banana Empire, 1900-19302. The Empire Challenged, 1930-743. The End of Splendid Isolation, 1974-93 Part 2. The Caribbean Banana Industries4. Peasant Farmer Societies: Commonwealth Caribbean Bananas5. Belize, Suriname, and the French West Indies: On the Margins of the Caribbean Part 3. The Changing Framework of the International Banana Trade6. The Single European Market and the Western Hemisphere's Banana Industries7. Neocolonialism Encounters the Free Trade Imperative8. The World Trade Organization and the Banana Trade9. The U.S.-EU Banana War Heats Up Part 4. Globalization10. Pursuit of an Elusive Goal11. Implications for the Future NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Ecuador, every year since 1990 Indian protestors have brought the country to a standstill; in Mexico, Zapatista indigenous guerillas rose up in arms to protest North American free trade. In Brazil, shamans faced down bulldozers to block World Bank dams, while in Bolivia, peasants attacked U.S. troops for the right to grow coca. These are a few examples of the rise of a transnational human rights movement among the hemisphere's most isolated and powerless people, Latin American Indians.This book tells the story of the unexpected impact of the Indian rights movement on world politics, from reforming the United Nations to evicting oil companies. Using a constructivist theoretical approach that synthesizes international relations, social movement theory, ethnic politics, and work on democratic transitions, the author argues that marginalized people have responded to globalization with new, internationalized forms of identity politics that reconstruct power relations.BasTrade Review“Drawing upon exhaustive, original research on indigenous political movements in five Latin American countries, this impressive work provides a sophisticated, persuasive, and nuanced analysis of how even the poorest and most marginalized groups in Latin American society can influence broader national and international institutions by projecting ethnic identities onto the global stage.”—Kenneth M. Roberts, University of New MexicoTable of ContentsPreface; Acronyms and organizations; Introduction: when worlds collide; 1. Theory: on power, borders, and meaning; 2. Voice in teh village: building a social movement; 3. State security: power versus principal; 4. 'Indian market': profit versus purpose; 5. Identities across borders: the politics of global civil society; 6. New times: the impact of the movement; Conclusion: it takes a village; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis work examines the unexpected impact of the Indian rights movement on world politics, from reforming the United Nations to evicting oil companies. It argues that marginalized people have responded to globalization with new forms of identity politics that reconstruct power relations.Trade Review“Drawing upon exhaustive, original research on indigenous political movements in five Latin American countries, this impressive work provides a sophisticated, persuasive, and nuanced analysis of how even the poorest and most marginalized groups in Latin American society can influence broader national and international institutions by projecting ethnic identities onto the global stage.”—Kenneth M. Roberts, University of New MexicoTable of ContentsPreface; Acronyms and organizations; Introduction: when worlds collide; 1. Theory: on power, borders, and meaning; 2. Voice in teh village: building a social movement; 3. State security: power versus principal; 4. 'Indian market': profit versus purpose; 5. Identities across borders: the politics of global civil society; 6. New times: the impact of the movement; Conclusion: it takes a village; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis title tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare states.Trade Review"Peasants Against Globalization provides an insightful case study of the impact of neoliberal politics in one country as well as an admirably thoughtful account of the campesinos' struggles to establish their basic rights." -- "This beautifully written book is of great theoretical importance for social movement theory and peasant studies, as well as for understanding the impact of neoliberalism in Latin America and the role of grassroots organizations in development. . . . Edelman brings to bear the results of two decades of fieldwork in various Costa Rican settings." -- Judith Alder Hellman * York University *"Edelman's work is an imporant corrective in an age when 'privatization' and the magic of the 'free market' are increasingly touted as the keys to global social prosperity. His combination of macroeconomic analysis and ethnography is a welcome addition to the exploding literature on globalization; his research at the grassroots helps bring 'world-system' discussions down from the level of grand statistical abstraction to real-world human beings, while his treatment of broad-scale economic trends helps place his ethnographic detail in its proper historical context. This book will be a valuable aid in courses exploring global processes from both sociological and anthropological perspectives." -- Journal of Peasant Studies"This is far from a traditional work of cultural anthropology. It reflects the best of the discipline's recent soul-searching revisionism. Sandwiched between an insightful review of the literature on peasants and a touch of self-reflection on the ethics of being an active participant observer is a detailed account of several local and national peasant organizations and their struggles with the globalization process in Costa Rica from about 1985 to 1995." -- Latin American Politics and SocietyTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction: debt crisis, social crisis, paradigm crisis 1. The rise and demise of a tropical welfare state 2. 'Iron First in a Kid Glove': peasants confront the free market 3. Organizing in 'The Cradle of Maize' 4. 'In Jail, We'll Eat Cement': finale to a peasant strike 5. Movements evolve, organizations are born and die Conclusion: peasant movements of the late twentieth century Appendix Notes Index.

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Book SynopsisA uniquely diverse collection of essays on the global reach of American power, institutions and culture from the 19th century to the present day.Trade Review“Globalization is, in itself, neither a positive nor a negative phenomenon; it is a reality, a defining aspect of the modern condition. . . . Therefore, what is at issue is not whether we should support or oppose globalization but how we should respond to it as a reality, how we manage it and its consequences. It is that spirit that led Bruce Mazlish, one of the giants of intellectual and cultural history, and his fellow contributors to assemble this volume. They have provided a considerable—and timely—service in helping to integrate a field of academic inquiry that has tended to be balkanized. . . . The result is a disciplined yet imaginative volume relevant to scholars, policy makers, and interested citizens of an increasingly globalized world.”—From the Preface by Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution and Founding Director of the Yale Center for the Study of GlobalizationTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Strobe Talbott000 Contributors000 1. Introduction000 Bruce Mazlish 2. The Political Structure of a Global World: the Role of the United States000 Martin Shaw 3. Globalization as Americanization000 Akira Iriye 4. Expansion and Integration: Reflections on the History of America's Approach to Globalization000 David Reynolds 5. American Exceptionalism and Uneven Global Integration: Resistance to the Global Society000 Ian Tyrrell 6. Crisscrossing the Gods: Globalization and American Religion000 N. J. Demerath III 7. Reverse Flow: European Media in The United States000 Roberta E. Pearson and Nicola Simpson 8. Weary Titan, Assertive Hegemon: Military Stategy, Globalization and US Preponderance000 Ian Roxborough 9. Globalization and Empire: The Effects of 9/11 and the Iraq War000 James Kurth 10. Conclusion000 Bruce Mazlish Notes000 Index000

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Book SynopsisAddresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses.Trade Review"This fascinating volume brings together a number of diverse themes and ideas that focus on the effects of globalization on the lives of young people in contemporary societies .... This is a complex book that contains a number of fascinating and interrelated discussion ... It is recommended for postgraduate students and staff who want to deepen their understanding of this area."—Fiona Hutton, Social and Legal Studies"[An] interesting and thought-provoking collection of case studies of the criminalization of youth and responses to it, attempts to regulate youth behaviour, and the contradictions of youth empowerment."—Canadian Journal of Sociology Online"The topic of youth, globalization, and the law is timely and important, but all too often the subject of platitudes. The detailed work in this volume helps both to redefine the normal litany of problems and point to deeper solutions. The freshness and thoughtfulness of the volume will make it immediately vital to the NGO community, legal policymakers, and philanthropic foundations, and to professors teaching courses about globalization, human rights, and a number of other subjects."—Bryant G. Garth, Director Emeritus, American Bar Foundation; Dean, Southwestern Law School"Original, provocative, and important. This book shows the historical and political relationship among globalization and youth experience, and powerfully illustrates the interconnections of politics, crime, immigration, economics, and social space."—Susan Sturm, Columbia University School of LawTable of ContentsTable of Contents Part I. Youth, Globalization and the Law Chapter 1. Youth and Legal Institutions: Thinking Globally and Comparatively Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh and Ronald Kassimir Chapter 2. Youth Justice and the Governance of Young People: Global, International, National and Local Contexts John Muncie Part II. Criminalization and Urban Governance Chapter 3. Refugee Gang Youth: Zero Tolerance and the Security State in Contemporary US- Salvadoran Relations Elana Zilberg Chapter 4. Policing the Youth: Towards a Redefinition of Discipline and Social Control in French Working-Class Neighborhoods Laurent Bonelli Chapter 5. Policing Ourselves: Law & Order in the American Ghetto Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh and Alexandra Murphy Part III. Institutional Regulation and Youth Response Chapter 6. Youth (Im)migration and Juvenile Law at the Paris Palace of Justice Susan Terrio Chapter 7. No Child Left Behind? The American Way of Punishment and Its Consequences for Families Brenda Coughlin Chapter 8. Public Spaces, Consumption and the Social Regulation of Young People Rob White Part IV. Contradictions of Youth Empowerment: Rights and International Law Chapter 9. Power and Autonomy in the History of Children's Rights Elizabeth Boyle, Trina Smith, and Katja Guenther Chapter 10. Civil Society, Law, and Institutional Bases for Change: Brazil's Estatuto da Crianca e Adolescente John Guidry Chapter 11. Global Regulation and Local Political Struggles: Early Marriage in Northern Nigeria Annie Bunting and Sally Merry Contributor biographies Index

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Book SynopsisFeaturing new contributions by leading globalization scholars, this timely volume analyzes the organization, geography, politics, and power dynamics of international trade and production networks understood as global commodity chains.Trade Review"Jennifer Bair has brought together a very stimulating collection of theoretical and empirical essays on this highly important approach for understanding the immense changes occurring in the global economy. This should be a key book for researchers and policy-makers alike."—Peter Dicken, University of Manchester"This exciting collection moves the decade-old commodity chain research into new frontiers and insights. The masterful introduction is followed by multifaceted explorations of old and vital new areas of the global economy, from produce to electronics. The contributions are as theoretically exciting as the implications are doleful."—Charles Perrow, Yale University"[T]he book laudably represents the broad specter of research questions that can be asked and answered through chain-inspired thinking—a tribute to the free use of the chain construct with no disciplinary imperialism attached."—Niels Fold, Economic GeographyTable of ContentsFrontiers of Commodity Chain Research Table of Contents Introduction 1. Commodity Chains: Genealogy and Review Jennifer Bair Part I. Operationalizing Global Chains: Theoretical and Methodological Debates 2. Historicizing Commodity Chains: Five Hundred Years of the Global Coffee Commodity Chain Steven Topik 3. Trading Up the Commodity Chain?: The Impact of Extractive and Labor-intensive Manufacturing Trade on World-system Inequalities David Smith and Matthew Mahutga 4. Protection Networks and Commodity Chains in the Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein Part II. Getting at Governance: Power and Coordination in Global Chains 5. The Comparative Advantages of Tropical Commodity Chain Analysis John Talbot 6. From Commodity Chains to Value Chains: Interdisciplinary Theory Building in an Age of Globalization Timothy J. Sturgeon 7. Global Commodity Chains, Market Makers, and the Rise of Demand-Responsive Economies Gary Gereffi and Gary Hamilton Part III. Workers and Activists in Global Chains 8. Mimicking 'Lean' in Global Value Chains: It's the Workers Who Get Leaned on Kate Raworth and Thalia Kidder 9. Unveiling the Unveiling: Commodity Chains, Commodity Fetishism, and the 'Value' of Voluntary, Ethical Food Labels Julie Guthman 10. Chain (Re)actions: Comparing Activist Mobilization against Biotechnology in Britain and the U.S William Munro and Rachel Schurman Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates participatory budgeting-a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs-to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society.Trade Review"Bootstrapping Democracy demonstrates the importance of ongoing experimentation as local governments and their civil society allies seek to deepen the quality of democratic institutions . . . Their research design, a paired case comparison, advances academic and policy debates on participatory democracy . . . The comparative approach used in this book makes it useful for both undergraduate and graduate courses."—Brian Wampler, Social Forces"This is one of the better contributions concerning participatory democracy in Brazil to be published in recent years. What makes this better than other recent studies of grassroots democracy in Brazil is the closer analysis of the different ways that PB develops across cities. . . This is an accessible book, even when the authors are discussing jargon-laden democratic theory or comparing Brazilian experiences to similar experiments in India and South Africa."—B. P. Keating, Choice"Insightful, subtle, and persuasively argued, Bootstrapping Democracy is a wonderful contribution to political theory and comparative politics. Writing on Brazil's two-decade-long experiment in participatory budgeting, Baiocchi, Heller, and Silva defend democracy's great promise: to turn citizens from clients into self-governing agents who, deploying their human powers, direct politics to a common good."—Joshua Cohen, Stanford University"Baiocchi, Heller, and Silva go beyond examining the 'success' of participatory budgeting to assess its actual impact in terms of government services and the further development of civil society. This clear, original work fills a very large void and really is incomparable."—Philip Oxhorn, McGill University"Bootstrapping Democracy is an exciting breath of fresh air in an era when the intellectual debate on how to construct effective democratic politics seems in danger of becoming sterile. Baiocchi, Heller, and Silva put an impressive set of empirical data together with an original theoretical perspective to create a positive thesis that should have a powerful invigorating impact on the democracy debate." —Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, prominent educators join Nel Noddings to address the issue of global citizenship, what this means, and how it should shape curriculum and teaching in K-12 classrooms.

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Book SynopsisAnthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry''s impact on workers'' well-beingThe 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers'' long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very sustainability of their employment.Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists anTrade Review"[A] welcome contribution to debates on how to achieve decent working and living conditions in the current system of transnational production. The editors are to be congratulated on bringing together leading anthropologists and scholars from across the social sciences who are renowned for their research on workers’ roles in the global garment industry...[T]his book will interest academics, activists and other practitioners in the garment industry who seek fresh ideas in thinking about the way forward." * South Asia: Journal of Asian Studies *"Unmaking the Global Sweatshop offers important insights on the issue of health and safety in the garments industry. The book successfully shows the need for a broader understanding of the issue of health and safety beyond the crucial but insufficient focus on building safety and design. The book shows the need to go beyond focusing only on the physical aspects of health and safety in the workplace into a broader understanding of mental and physical health and well-being in the workplace and beyond...In addition to researchers and students working on labour issues, the book can be useful for trade unionists, NGOs and labour activists dealing with the issue of labour in GVCs." * Competition & Change *"A first-rate and necessary book. In compiling the analyses of northern and southern scholars across the social sciences, Unmaking the Global Sweatshop provides original insights into the global supply chain and innovative approaches to general questions of power relationships and workers' health and safety writ large." * Lance A. Compa, Cornell University *"Using the unifying theme of health and safety, the editors open a wide-ranging study of power relations in the supply-chain system and on factory floors. Each chapter brings a unique perspective to these issues and provokes new ways of thinking about them." * Susan L. Kang, City University of New York *

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Book SynopsisA journey into de facto state-building based on ethnographic and archival research in the Turkish Republic of Northern CyprusWhat is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process of constructing an entity that looks like a state and acts like a state but that much of the world says does not or should not exist. In international law, the de facto state is one that exists in reality but remains unrecognized by other states. Nevertheless, such entities provide health care and social security, issue identity cards and passports, and interact with international aid donors. De facto states hold elections, conduct censuses, control borders, and enact fiscal policies. Indeed, most maintain representative offices in sovereign states and are able to unofficially communicate with officials. Bryant and Hatay develop the concept of the aporetic statTrade Review"This book is an extensive and critical study on the KKTC’s and Turkish Cypriots’ in-between/limbo history. It has a well-structured content and theoretical framework, consolidated by intelligible language and spot-on case analysis. Moreover, [Bryant and Hatay] strive to overcome antagonistic dichotomies and unilateral claims about unresolved Cyprus conflicts, such as representing Turkish Cypriots as victims and Turkey as their saviour by critically underlining the peculiarity of the building of KKTC and its subjects. Thus, their critical and genealogical approach to this frozen conflict contributes substantively to their outstanding work in this field." * Mediterranean Politics *"Sovereignty Suspended is a treat. Organizing their analysis around concerns with perceptions and (in)visibility, with recognition and (non-)naming, and with agency and modes of getting by, Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay have prepared two gifts for us: a riveting historical ethnography of the Turkish Cypriot sovereignty project, now embodied in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), and a sophisticated analytical toolbox to think through questions of sovereignty well beyond this ‘de facto’ state. What is particularly impressive is that those two contributions are developed in close interaction, giving the lie to the stereotypical division of labour between authors whose contribution is said to be ‘theoretical’ or ‘regional’ respectively...[R]ead Sovereignty Suspended. This is a big book: big on empirical insight, big on conceptualization...very big on inspiration. It’s big on volume too, and worth every page of it. " * History and Anthropology *"Part ethnography, part political theory, and part war memoir, Sovereignty Suspended is a valuable addition for anthropologists and scholars in adjacent disciplines working on issues of statecraft, borders, and political uncertainty. The book’s ethnographic and theoretical vigor is undeniable: it stems from, and supplements, a long corpus of previous collaborative work by the two authors." * American Anthropologist *"In a world in which such ambivalent, state-like entities seem to have proliferated, the case of northern Cyprus offers many useful lessons for understanding what statehood actually does-lessons that the authors of this insightful and original book artfully extract from a wonderful array of personal experience, documentary evidence, and ethnographic observation." * Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University *"Sovereignty Suspended is an absolute joy to read and easily one of the best books written on de facto states. Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay use their extensive knowledge and years of research on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to provide an extremely rich and original analysis of the processes of de facto state-building: how state-builders tried to make Turkish Cypriots perceptible and recognizable to the world, how this has resulted in a state that seems made up, and the resilient tactics that Turkish Cypriots have developed to go on with their lives. But Bryant and Hatay are not simply interested in state-building in de facto states, and their analysis allows them to reconceptualize sovereignty as capacity, as a form of institutionally realized agency. This is an important contribution which should make this impressive book of interest to anyone interested in state-building and sovereignty." * Nina Caspersen, University of York *"Sovereignty Suspended is a creative contribution to the cultural turn in state theory, presenting an original approach to state formation by focusing on the aspiration to statehood as a political and social situation sui generis, involving distinct methodological and theoretical problems for would-be citizens (as the authors call them) and scholars alike." * Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University *Table of ContentsPreface Note on Toponyms and Turkish Pronunciation Introduction. The Aporetic State Part I. The Border That Is Not One Chapter 1. Building a "Border" Chapter 2. Mastering the Landscape Chapter 3. Planting People Part II. Enacting the Aporetic State Chapter 4. The So-Called State Chapter 5. The Political Economy of Spoils Chapter 6. Federalism as Fetish Part III. The Aporetic Subject Chapter 7. Victim and Citizen Chapter 8. The Ambiguities of Domination Chapter 9. The Politics of Dis/simulation Conclusion. The Absurdity of the Aporia Appendix: Turkish Cypriot Institutions Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFrom unsafe working conditions in garment manufacturing to the failure to consult indigenous communities with regard to extractive industries that affect them, human rights violations remain a pervasive aspect of the global economy. Advocates have long called upon states, as the primary duty bearers and enforcers of human rights, to hold corporations directly accountable for violations committed throughout the supply chain. More recently, many business and human rights advocates have considered the development and enforcement of private regulatory initiatives (PRIs) to certify that actors along the supply chain conform to certain codes of conduct. Many advocates see these PRIs as holding the potential to create better outcomes—whether for workers, affected communities, or the environment—within a global economy structured by supply chain capitalism.This volume brings together academics and practitioners from a number of regions throughout the world to engage in theTrade ReviewThis volume exposes power imbalances that underpin and undermine the efficacy of various private initiatives aimed at regulating human rights abuses in global supply chains. The editors and many authors rightly stress the need to dismantle the current system, which tends to legitimize these asymmetries experienced by workers and affected communities. * Surya Deva, City University of Hong Kong *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Key Acronyms Part I. Framing the Discussion: Private Regulatory Initiatives, Human Rights, and Supply Chain Capitalism Chapter 1. Private Regulatory Initiatives, Human Rights, and Supply Chain Capitalism Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle, and Kate Taylor Chapter 2. Closing Gaps in the Chain: Regulating Respect for Human Rights in Global Supply Chains and the Role of Multi-stakeholder Initiatives Justine Nolan Part II. Multi-stakeholder Initiatives and the Maldistribution of Power Chapter 3. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme and the Continuation of "Conflict Diamonds" Farai Maguwu Chapter 4. Reforming Commodity Certification Systems to Respect Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Prospects for the Forestry Stewardship Council and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Marcus Colchester Chapter 5. What Difference Can Certification Regimes Make? The Mapuche People's Claims for Autonomy and the Forestry Industry in Southern Chile Charles R. Hale and José Aylwin Chapter 6. Sustainability Certification and Controversies Surrounding Palm Oil Expansion in Guatemala Geisselle Vanessa Sánchez Monge Part III. Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Programs: Attempts to Redistribute Power Chapter 7. Assessing Feasibility for Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Programs Sean Sellers Chapter 8. From Public Relations to Enforceable Agreements: The Bangladesh Accord as a Model for Supply Chain Accountability Jessica Champagne Chapter 9. Transformation Through Transparency: Human Rights and Corporate Responsibilities in the Global Food System Erika George Part IV. Critical Reflections Chapter 10. Reflections on Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains: Innovation and Scalability James J. Brudney Chapter 11. Situating Human Rights Approaches to Corporate Accountability in the Political Economy of Supply Chain Capitalism Dan Danielsen Chapter 12. Taking Consumers Seriously: Public Regulatory Tools of Accountability Lauren Fielder Chapter 13. Private Regulatory Initiatives and Beyond: Lessons and Reflections Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, Karen Engle, and Kate Taylor Notes List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Trade Review"LatinAsian Cartographies is an excellent book that widens the scope of Asian American, Latin American, and American studies. Thananopavarn's comparative study allows us to engage with and learn about the complexities of globalization, transnational migration, citizenship, and belonging." -- Rudy Guevarra Jr. * author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego *"LatinAsian Cartographies intertwines readings of Asian American and Latina/o literature with fascinating historical accounts that often illuminate the urgency of cultural critique for current racial and national politics." -- Crystal Parikh * author of Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color *"Across the globe, various social movements have started to question traditional historical narratives and figures. In this context, LatinAsian Cartographies is an interesting and relevant book." -- Nicolás Camino * H-Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Asian American and Latina/o Voices Writing History, Remapping Nation 1 1 United States Imperialism and Structural Violence in the Borderlands 31 2 Battle on the Homefront: World War II and Patriotic Racism 56 3 Cold War Epistemologies 82 4 Globalization and Military Violence in the LatinAsian Contact Zone 107 Conclusion: American Studies Beyond National Borders 133 Acknowledgments 149 Notes 151 Works Cited 175 Index 185

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