Capturing Globalization

by Mittelman, James H.

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Title Statements

Full title :Capturing Globalization.

Summary

What are the moral codes and normative principles inscribed in globalization? How do diverse communities optimize their positions, and try to capture these processes? What are the foremost cultural and political attempts to govern the market? What are the social and ethical limits to a framework based on deregulation, privitization and liberalization? These related themes reveal how issues such as religion, private capital flows, poverty, the state and democracy, transnational class structures, disruptions in culture and new patterns in the use of language are part of the globalization process. Empirically, the research derives from data from fieldwork within and outside Southeast Asia, with a common reference point based on research in Malaysia. Following the trauma of the late 1990s - with environmental abuses in Southeast Asia, transnational turmoil in currency trading and the meltdown of stock markets - this book seeks to understand how, and to what extent, communities can reclaim political and social control over the dynamics of globalization. This highly original contribution to the globalization debate will be invaluable to researchers in a number of disciplines including political science, anthropology, history, economics, Asian Studies and sociology.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2004
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2004

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (173 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203167601, 0203167600
oclc:on1048257825
LC Classification:HF1359 ǂb C3684 2001eb
Dewey Decimal:337

Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Globalization: captors and captives -- Globalization: another false universalism? -- Globalization and private capital movements -- Globalization and economic disparities in East and Southeast Asia: new dilemmas -- Globalization and democratization: the response of the indigenous peoples of Sarawak -- Globalization and transnational class relations: some problems of conceptualization -- Reconsidering cultural globalization: the English language in Malaysia -- Capturing globalization: prospects and projects -- Bibliography -- Index.

Subjects

Economic history globalism Globalization International economic relations Malaisie -- Conditions économiques malaysia Malaysia -- Economic conditions Mondialisation