Peter Dicken / Lily Kong / Kris Olds (eds.)

Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific

Contested Territories
Herausgeber: Dicken, Peter; Kong, Lily; Kelly, Philip F

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This impressive collection of leading, interdisciplinary experts explores various dimensions of globalization, and their relationship to development processes in the region. "Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific" provides diverse accounts of how globalization is being experienced, understood, managed and resisted at various scales in relation to development processes in the Asia-Pacific. This radical new perspective provides an invaluable analysis for political scientists, as well as those involved in human geography, sociology, international political economy, development studies, asian studies and economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780415199193
• ISBN-10: 0415199190
• Artikelnr.: 21265521

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.