Contesting Globalization

Space and Place in the World Economy

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ID19908946
AuthorsAndré C Drainville (corresponding author)
Year2004
Publication date2004-07-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueContesting Globalization (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203622599
OpenAlexW4252604995
Open LibraryOL38638573M
ISBN9780203622599
LanguageEN
Citations received40

Contesting Globalization makes an innovative and original addition to the literature on globalization examining the challenges faced by those wishing to develop progressive visions of transparent global governance and civil society. This new study closely traces the history and development of the institutions of global governance (The World Bank, IMF, WTO etc.) as well as the emergence of the anti-globalization movement. The author argues that we are at a unique moment where social forces have moved from national and international struggles to a global struggle and intervention in the world economy. A series of case studies examine the ways in which cities have become contested sites for global struggles from the London dockworkers strikes of the nineteenth century to the recent demonstrations against the international financial institutions in Genoa, Seattle and Washington

Globalization · Political science · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

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