What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains rights and who loses rights? Losing Control? examines the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions, such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, and shows that though sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, it is no longer...
What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create so...
Sassen identifies two sets of processes that make up globalization: the first and more commonly studied set of processes is global institutions, from the World Trade Organization to the War Crime Tribunals; the second and less frequently explored set of processes occur at the national and local level, including state monetary policy, small-scale activism that has an explicit or implicit global agenda, and local politics. Emphasizing the interplay between global and local phenomena, Sassen insightfully examines new forms and conditions such as global cities, transnational communities, and...
Sassen identifies two sets of processes that make up globalization: the first and more commonly studied set of processes is global institutions, from ...
This work is a useful addition to the literature on globalization and examines the challenges faced by those wishing to develop progressive visions of transparent global governance and civil society. It traces the history of the institutions of global governance (The World Bank, IMF, WTO etc) and the emergence of the anti-globalization movement.
This work is a useful addition to the literature on globalization and examines the challenges faced by those wishing to develop progressive visions of...
Contesting Globalization makes an innovative and original addition to the literature on globalization examining the challenges faced by those wishing to develop progressive visions of transparent global governance and civil society.
This new study closely traces the history and development of the institutions of global governance (The World Bank, IMF, WTO etc.) as well as the emergence of the anti-globalization movement. The author argues that we are at a unique moment where social forces have moved from national and international struggles to a global struggle and...
Contesting Globalization makes an innovative and original addition to the literature on globalization examining the challenges faced by th...
In her book The Global City, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the post-industrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces of increasing socio-economic polarization. One effect has been that such cities have gained in importance and power relative to nation-states.
In her book The Global City, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the post-industrial world have become central nodes in the new service econom...
While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society. To study the relationship between gender and liberal democratic citizenship, LeBlanc conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in suburban Tokyo among housewives, volunteer groups, consumer cooperative movements, and the members of a...
While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side stre...
Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks. This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in...
Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually bo...
