Making Globalisation

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 12
Contemporary scholarship and globalization......Page 15
Defining globalization......Page 25
Structure of the book......Page 27
Globalization: Space and time......Page 29
The global, the regional, the national, and the local......Page 31
Global civil society......Page 34
Globalization and its discontents......Page 35
The argument of the book......Page 37
2 When did Globalization Begin?......Page 39
Exploring the history of globalization......Page 40
Towards a history of globalization......Page 51
Globalization and de-globalization in recent world history......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 63
3 Global Patterning: Systems, Structures, Fields, Networks, Webs, and Flows......Page 66
The global field......Page 73
Networks, webs, and flows in the study of globalization......Page 78
Networks and governance......Page 82
Conclusion......Page 90
4 Globalization and the Transformation of Space, and Time......Page 92
Time–space compression and processes of globalization......Page 93
Does globalization 'annihilate space'?......Page 96
Globalization, identity, and territorial space......Page 98
Limits to global fluidity......Page 100
Naming spaces......Page 102
Globalization and the proliferation of social times......Page 109
Conclusion......Page 115
5 Global, National, Regional, and Local: Competing or Inter-dependent?......Page 116
The global and the local......Page 120
Cultural affiliation and globalization......Page 126
Political institutions in an epoch of global challenge......Page 128
Glocalization......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 140
6 Global Civil Society......Page 143
Some historical pathways in the making of global civil society......Page 147
Communication and global civil society......Page 151
Global civil society and global world-views......Page 154
The organizational face of global civil society......Page 159
Global civil society as an innovative radical force?......Page 163
Conclusion......Page 168
7 Globalization and its Discontents......Page 170
Globalization and human welfare......Page 173
Income and inequality......Page 175
Free trade and fair trade......Page 179
Global debt......Page 181
Challenges to the making of globalization through the Washington Consensus......Page 183
Global discontents, knowledge, and the global political order......Page 187
Conclusion......Page 194
8 The Making of Globalization: Puzzles and Prospects......Page 196
Human agency......Page 199
Normative issues and the making of a better world......Page 202
Bibliography......Page 205
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Z......Page 224