Fighting Marginalization with Transnational Networks

Counter-Hegemonic Globalization

Bibliographic Data

ID5779565
AuthorsPeter Evans (0000-0002-4824-6486)
Year2000
Volume29
Issue1
Pages230-230
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2654947
OpenAlexW1986435662
LanguageEN
Citations received111
References cited2

The dominant features of contemporary globalization the reorganization of production at the global level and the disproportionate growth of trade and finance that crosses national borders-continues a nineteenth-century trajectory temporarily derailed by two world wars and a depression. But it was not only the global aspirations of the Rothschilds that smashed up against World War I. Progressive dreams that the oppressed and exploited might create alliances across national boundaries went even more thoroughly awry. Why shouldn't the burgeoning growth of communication and movement across national boundaries create new global strategies aimed at well-being and equity at the same time that it stimulates transnational finance and trade? The global rules and networks currently being constructed around the interests of transnational corporations (particularly financial ones) are hegemonic in two ways: First, they are dominant in their ability to provide material rewards and impose sanctions (including coercion). Second, and equally important, they are ideologically dominant. They are surprisingly successful in portraying specific defini

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