Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific - Contested Territories

List of contents

Acknowledgements. Questions in a crisis: The contested meanings of globalisation in the Asia Pacific. Phillip Kelly and Kris Olds . Global Discourses. Reflections on golobalisation and its (il)logic(s). Bob Jessop . Globalism and the politics of place. Arif Dirlik . The globaisation of the system of business knowledge. Nigel Thrift . Resisting Globalisation: Environmental politics in Eastern Asia. James H. Mittelman . Regional reformations. The political economy of globalisation in East Asia: The Salience of 'Region Building'. Richard Higgott . INvesting in the future: East and Southeast Asian firms in the global economy. Peter Dicken and Henry Wai-chung Yeung . Rethinking globaisation: Re-articulating the spatial scales and temporal horizons of trans-border spaces. Ngai-Ling Sum . Reterritorializing the state. Servicing the global economy: reconfigures states and private agents. Saskia Sassen . Globalisation and the limits to national economic management. Cayetano Paderanga Jr . Global Lives. Class formation, hybridity and ethnification in declining global hegemonies. Jonathan Friedman . Citizens in Transnational nation-states: The Asian experience. Nina Glick Schiller . Globalisation, transmigration nd the renegotiation of ethnic identity. Lily Kong . Globalisation, Postcolonialism and new represenations of the pacific Asia Metropolis. Dean Forbes . References. Index.

About the author

Peter Dicken, Philip F. Kelly, Lily Kong, Kris Olds, Henry Wai-chung Yeung,

Summary

In this collection of essays, leading interdisciplinary scholars explore various dimensions of globalisation and their relationship to development processes in the Asia-Pacific region.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Dicken (Editor), Dicken Peter (Editor), Philip F Kelly (Editor), Philip F. Kelly (Editor), Kelly Philip F. (Editor), Lily Kong (Editor), Kong Lily (Editor), Kris Olds (Editor), Olds Kris (Editor), Henry Wai-Chung Yeung (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.1999
• EAN: 9780415199209
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19920-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Weight: 570 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Globalisation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Political science & theory, Political Economy, East Asia, Far East, Political science and theory, Development Studies