Re: globalization

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Anyone get the new book by Justin Rosenberg from Verso yet?
http://www.versobooks.com/
http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/rosenberg_follies.shtml
     In these pages Justin Rosenberg develops an erudite and lively critique
of contemporary globalisation theory. He argues that fashionable
preoccupations with spatiality have generated deep intellectual confusions
that stand in the way of a clear understanding of the modern world. And he
shows how these confusions ultimately condemn globalisation theorists to a
peculiar and quixotic stance: the more clearly they attempt to articulate
their arguments, the more equivocal and evasive those arguments become.

The Follies of Globalisation Theory looks first at the broad field of
international relations. It then turns its attention to a work widely
credited with providing a sociological foundation for globalisation theory,
Anthony Giddens's The Consequences of Modernity. Rosenberg submits Giddens's
theory to a thorough, often highly entertaining interrogation, and concludes
by drawing out the implications of his critique for globalisation theory in
general.

Justin Rosenberg is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the
University of Sussex. He is the author of The Empire of Civil Society, which
won the 1994 Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. Publication
April 2001
224 pages



----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Perelman" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:35 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:14112] globalization


> Maybe we should stop using the expression globalization when the
> conservative stop using the term, free markets.  Doug is correct
> that globalization is a long process, which has increased over
> the years, despite setbacks, such as during the depression.
>
> The term, however, resonates.  I think that capitalist
> intensifaction has a more frightening sound to my ears, but I
> don't think it will resonate.
>
> --
>
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
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