Globalization, the state, and violence

A dozen essays by US and European urbanists, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists develop an approach to understanding the increasing violence that has occurred on a global scale over the past couple decades, and try to construct a more adequate comprehension of global processes than has been provided in the language of globalization. Among the topics are class projects, social consciousness, and the contradictions of globalization; and the case for citizenship as social contract.

Globalization, dis-integration, re-organization : the transformations of violence / Jonathan Friedman -- Class projects, social consciousness, and the contradictions of "globalization" / Terence Turner -- Economic globalization and the redrawing of citizenship / Saskia Sassen -- Beyond the informal economy : new trends in post-Fordist transition / Simone Ghezzi and Enzo Mingione -- The new paradigm of violence / Michel Wieviorka -- The case for citizenship as social contract : a tale of two girls / Unni Wikan -- American neoliberalism, "globalization", and violence : reflections from the United States and Southeast Asia / Donald M. Nonini -- Killing me softly : violence, globalization, and the apparent state / Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron -- Sorcery and the shapes of globalization disjunctions and continuities : the case of Sri Lanka / Bruce Kapferer -- Imagining monsters : a structural history of warfare in Chad (1968-1990) / Steve Reyna -- "Trouble spots" : projects, bandits, and state fragmentation / Steven Sampson -- State classes, the logic of Rentier power and social disintegration : global parameters and local structures of the decline of the Congo / Kajsa Ekholm …