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SPRINGER Frontiers Of Globalization Research 2007 Edition by ROSSI, INO (ED.)
To bring this volume together, the editor asked leading scholars in the field of globalization to outline a "research framework" that reflects their own approach to the subject. The resulting book presents a broad spectrum of analytical approaches to globalization. Theoretical reviews are complemented by substantive chapters and methodological analyses. Contributors include scholars in the fields of sociology, anthropology, history and political science. These writings have been organized into four sections: theoretical perspectives and cultural globalization, economic globalization, political globalization, and methodological approaches. Preface.- Introduction: Rationale of the Book and Thematics of the Contributions, Ino Rossi.- PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES.- 1. Globalization as an Historical and a Dialectical Process, Ino Rossi.- 2. Microglobalization, Karin Knorr Cetina.- 3. A Transnational Framework for Theory and Research in the Study of Globalization, Leslie Sklair.- 4. Global Systems, Globalization and Anthropological Theory, Jonathan Friedman.- 5. Structure Formation in World Society: The Eigenstructures of World Society and the Regional Cultures of the World, Rudolf Stichweh.- 6. Global Complexities, John Urry.- PART TWO: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PROCESSES.- A. Economic Integration and Disintegration, and Uneven Development.- 7. Trajectories of Trade and Investment Globalization, Christopher Chase Dunn and Andrew Jorgenson.- 8. Globalization and Uneven Development, Giovanni Arrighi.- 9. Globalization and Disintegration: Substitutionist Technologies and the Disintegration of Global Economic Ties, Robert K. Schaeffer.- B. World Governance, Terrorism and Democracy.- 10. Social Integration, System Integration and Global Governance, Margaret S. Archer.- 11. Globalization, Terrorism, and Democracy: 9/11 and Its Aftermath, Douglas Kellner.- PART THREE: STUDYING GLOBALIZATION: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES.- 12. Finding Frontiers in Historical Research on Globalization, Raymond Grew.- 13. Theoretical and Empirical Elements in the Study of Globalization, Saskia Sassen.- 14. Three Steps toward a Viable Theory of Globalization, James N. Rosenau.- 15. Situating Global Social Relations, Martin Albrow.- 16. Conclusion: Toward a Framework of Global Communication: Durkheim, Phenomenology, Post-modernism and the 'Construction' of Place and Space, Ino Rossi.- PART FOURTH: COMMENTARIES AND DISCUSSION.- 17. 'Globalization: In Search of a Paradigm', Janet Abu-Lughod.- 18. A 'New' Global Age, But Are There New Perspectives on It?, George Ritzer.- 19. 'Globalization' as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere, Jeffrey C. Alexander.- 20. Rationalization and Globalization in neo-Weberian Perspective, Randall Collins.- 21. From Cosmopolitanism to a Global Perspective: Paradigmatic Discontinuity versus Continuity and Emergent Conceptualizations, Ino Rossi.- INDEX.-