Labouring to Learn: Towards the Political Economy of Plantations, People and Education in Sri Lanka (International Political Economy Series)

"Global issues have become an increasingly vital part of environmental debates. They are closely interrelated with problems at local levels. In this wide-ranging study, Robert Boardman argues that investigation of environmental issues raises complex theoretical questions, and requires more sustained links between the natural and social sciences.". "In a closely integrated account of problems in critical ecological theory, Boardman draws extensively on current research in sociology, ecology, economics, the earth sciences and other disciplines. He suggests that ideas from these can be used to expand attention to and the understanding of environmental issues in international relations and international political economy, as well as in social theory more generally.". "The discussion identifies five main theoretical bases for these tasks. These are ecology and earth-system science; constructionist approaches; environmental ethics; micro-level research, particularly perspectives based on rational expectations and on agency; and governance. Connections among these are examined in the context of debates on economics globlization and ecological transformation."--BOOK JACKET. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Notes on Contributors......Page 10 Introduction......Page 13 Part I: Neo-liberalism and the Market State: Concepts and Issues......Page 18 1 Neo-liberalism and the Market State: What is the Ideal Shell?......Page 20 2 Two Faces of Neo-liberalism......Page 37 Part II: Neo-liberalism and its Global Transit......Page 54 3 The Politics of Neo-liberalism in Latin America: Legitimacy, Depoliticization and Technocratic Rule in Chile......Page 56 4 Neo-liberalism in the Russian Federation......Page 75 5 Corruption and Neo-liberal Reform: Markets and Predatory Power in Indonesia and Southeast Asia......Page 96 6 Neo-liberalism and the Persistence of Clientelism in Africa......Page 115 7 Serving the Market or Serving the Party: Neo-liberalism in China......Page 131 Part III: Conflict within the Neo-liberal Camp......Page 150 8 The Wall Street–Treasury–IMF Complex after Asia: Neo-liberalism in Decline?......Page 152 9 What’s in a Name? Neo-conservative Ideology, Neo-liberalism and Globalization......Page 173 10 Mr Bush and Neo-liberalism......Page 190 Part IV: The Neo-liberal Future......Page 212 11 Neo-liberalism and Transparency: Political versus Economic Liberalism......Page 214 12 European Social Democracy and the Neo-liberal Global Agenda: a Resurgent Influence or Capitulation?......Page 233 13 Economic Constitutionalism, Liberalism and the New Welfare Governance......Page 251 Bibliography......Page 271 C......Page 299 G......Page 300 L......Page 301 P......Page 302 T......Page 303 Z......Page 304 Internationally the trade union movement is finding itself peripheralized by a series of mutually reinforcing processes - the ongoing world economic crisis; the uneven transition from an industrial to an information and service capitalism; the aggressive policies of neoliberalism; the collapse of communism and radical nationalism; the decline of the social-democratic or labour tradition - and by a globalization that undermines the nation-state to which union hopes have long been pinned. The editors argue that this crisis provides an opportunity for labour to recover or reinvent itself. They see this in terms of a labour response to the waves of energy coming from the new global social movements (women, ecology, human rights/democracy, and so on). The authors examine various aspects of Japanese financial markets. This analysis is interspersed with the relevant institutional/historical background on Japanese financial markets necessary for the non-specialist. Principal chapters include: an institutional overview; a chapter on the comparative costs of capital (both internationally and among Japanese firms); causes and implications of the high degree of financial intermediation in Japan; and an invaluable analysis of the most recent trends in the Japanese/Asian financial markets "Many in South Africa have begun to cope with globalization, regionalization, a depleting ozone layer, new disease, rampant militarization, and structures of influence like race, class, and gender. In this book scholars present a wide variety of thoughts on the future of the region and the place of theory in helping us to understand the array of events characterizing the early 21st-century world."--Jacket Written in the context of contemporary theoretical debate in international political economy, this book overturns a number of myths about the political economy of trade in one of the oldest areas of industry. Yvon Grenier ; Foreword By Mitchell A. Seligson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 215-218) And Index.