Globalization And The Margins (international Political Economy Series)

Globalization has become one of the dominant ideas of recent times. However, is the debate on globalization as global as it ought to be? In this book Grant and Rennie Short have brought together prominent experts in the field to consider how globalization affects marginalized countries and groups. A variety of case studies provide a unique assessment of the issue of globalization and offer a new look at the relationship between the global and the local. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Maps......Page 8 List of Tables......Page 9 List of Figures......Page 10 Notes on the Contributors......Page 11 List of Abbreviations......Page 14 Part I Theoretical Threads on Globalization......Page 16 1 Globalization: An Introduction......Page 18 2 Globalization and the Formation of Claims......Page 30 3 Opposition and Resistance to Globalization......Page 40 4 Subduing Globalization: The Challenge of the Indigenization Movement......Page 54 Part II Globalization on The Margins......Page 66 5 Globalization or Localization? Rural Advertising in India......Page 68 6 Speaking from the Margins: “Postmodernism,” Transnationalism, and the Imagining of Contemporary Indian Urbanity......Page 87 Part III Globalization in the Margins......Page 106 7 Globalization and Women: Gender and Resistance in the Informal Sector of Peru......Page 108 8 Migrant Communities in Accra: Marginalizing the Margins......Page 126 9 Foreign Companies and Glocalizations: Evidence from Accra, Ghana......Page 145 10 The Effects of Economic Globalization: Land Use and Land Values in Mumbai, India......Page 165 11 Globalization and Financial Crises in Seoul, South Korea......Page 185 Part IV Conclusions......Page 206 12 Conclusions: Ordering a Chaotic Concept Based on Evidence from the Margins......Page 208 Index......Page 218 Globalization has become one of the dominant ideas of the beginning of the 21st century. However, is the debate on globalization as global as it ought to be? In this book Richard Grant and John Rennie Short have brought together prominent experts in the field to consider how globalization affects marginalized countries and groups. A variety of case studies provides an assessment of the issue of globalization and offers a fresh look at the relationship between the global and the local Globalization has become one of the dominant ideas of recent times. However, is the debate on globalization as global as it ought to be? In this book the editors have brought together prominent experts in the field to consider how globalization affects marginalized countries and groups. A variety of case studies provide a unique assessment of the issue of globalization and offer a new look at the relationship between the global and the local.