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Global Shaping and its Alternatives offers a unique series of reflections on the connections between market capitalism, the politics of alternatives, and the cultural elaboration of social change. It argues that there is a need for an alternative explanatory framework on globalization - one that rejects fatalism and highlights the dynamic roles of states, NGOs, local fractions of capital, democrative movements and gendered social relations. Without understanding how global shaping is taking place and how it affects human life across the globe, there can be no transformational possibility for humanizing our conditions of existence.

Yildiz Atasoy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. She specializes in transnational political economy, political sociology, and gender relations.

William K. Carroll is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is also the Sociology editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology.

Table of Contents: [Back to Top]

Preface - Vanaja Dhruvarajan

Part I: Sociology of Globalization

Chapter 1: Explaining Globalization - Yildiz Atasoy

Part II: Economic Shaping of Globalization

Chapter 2: Is Globalization a Reality, a Tendency or a Rationale for Neoliberal Economic Policies? - Robert Chernomas and Ardeshir Sepehri

Chpater 3: Undoing the End of History: Canada-centred Reflections on the Challenge of Globalization - William K. Carroll

Chapter 4: Explaining Local-Global Nexus: Muslim Politics in Turkey - Yildiz Atasoy

Part III: Global Politics: The Role of Non-Governmental and Governmental International Organizations

Chapter 5: Globalization, Competitiveness and Human Security: Revisited - Helen O'Neill

Chapter 6: Interrogating Globalization: Emerging Contradictions and Conflicts - Elaine Coburn

Part IV: Politics of Alternatives

Chapter 7: Women and Globalization in the Economic North and South - Ann Denis

Chapter 8: Two Faces of Globalization in Mexico: Maquiladoras and Zapatistas - Jean-Luc Chodkiewicz

Chapter 9: Feminism and Resistance to Globalization of Capitalism - Vanaja Dhruvarajan

Afterword: September 11 and the Reorganization of the World Economy - Yildiz Atasoy

Selected Bibliography

Index

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