Globalization and the Margins

Globalization has become one of the dominant ideas of recent times. However, is the debate on globalization as global as it ought to be? In this book Grant and Rennie Short have brought together prominent experts in the field to consider how globalization affects marginalized countries and groups. A variety of case studies provide a unique assessment of the issue of globalization and offer a new look at the relationship between the global and the local.

List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Notes on the Contributors List of Acronyms PART I: THEORETICAL THREADS ON GLOBALIZATION Globalization: An Introduction; J.Rennie Short & R.Grant Globalization and the Formation of Claims; S.Sassen Opposition and Resistance to Globalization; R.Robertson Subduing Globalization: The Challenge of the Indigenization Movement; M.Boroujerdi PART II: GLOBALIZATION ON THE MARGINS Globalization or Localization? Rural Advertising in India; T.K.Bhatia Speaking from the Margins: 'Postmodernism,' Transnationalism and the Imagining of Contemporary Indian Urbanity; A.D.King PART III: GLOBALIZATION IN THE MARGINS Globalization and Women at the Urban Margins: Gender and Resistance in the Information Sector of Peru; M.Hays-Mitchell Migrant Communities in Accra: Marginalizing the Margins; D.Pellow Foreign Companies and Margins: Evidence from Accra, Ghana; R.Grant The Effects of Economic Globalization in the Margins: Land Use and Land Values in Mumbai; J.Nijman Globalization and Financial Crises in Seoul; Y.Kim Conclusions: Ordering a Chaotic Concept from the Margins; R.Grant & J.Rennie Short Index

TEJ K. BHATIA Professor of Linguistics, Syracuse University MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Syracuse University ANTHONY D. KING Professor of Art History, and of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghampton MAUREEN HAYS-MITCHELL Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Colgate University YEONG-HYUN KIM Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio University JAN NIJMAN Professor of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami DEBORAH PELLOW Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University ROLAND ROBERTSON Professor of Sociology and Director, Centre for the Study of Globalization, University of Aberdeen SASKIA SASSEN Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics