Global Futures: Shaping GlobalizationJan Nederveen Pieterse Zed Books, 2000 - 250 páginas "This is the first book to go beyond globalization. Its eminent contributors reject a fatalistic stance in the face of the problems that accelerating globalization is throwing up. Instead, they argue that humanity must make seek to shape globalization. In a sequence of tightly argued essays, they suggest a variety of innovative perspectives, changes, policies and institutional reforms that we ought to strive for in our increasingly inter-connected world. The exciting range of topics discussed include global governance and democratization; international finance and reform of the world economy; Third World development; the environment; the position of women; poverty and social exclusion; technology and culture; and the future shape of urban growth. Optimistic and inventionist in tone, this book provides a one-stop overview of thinking about global reform. Bristling with ideas, its new angle on globalization brings together different domains of transformation and different disciplines, looking to a future in which humanity consciously influences, improves and humanizes what may otherwise be seen as an impersonal and destructive juggernaut."--Back cover. |
Contenido
Shaping Globalization I | 1 |
Reviving the Quest | 23 |
A Developmental | 40 |
World Economic Changes at the Threshold of | 53 |
Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare | 63 |
The Mosaic of Global Taxes | 83 |
An Alternative to Global Marketization | 98 |
The Local Dimensions of Global Reform | 119 |
Poverty and the Politics of Alternatives at the End | 133 |
Environmental Justice as a Force for Sustainability | 148 |
Feminist Futures | 175 |
The State | 189 |
Technologies of PostHuman Development and | 203 |
Contradictory Utopias | 224 |
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