Globalization and the margins

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Short John R.; Grant Richard. 1964-
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, N.Y.
Publication Dates: 2002.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: International political economy series
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Carrier Form: xiii, 215 p.: ill., map ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0333964314 (cloth)
0333964322 (pbk.)
0333717082 (SERIES
0333711106 (SERIES
Index Number: F114
CLC: F114
F112.1
Call Number: F114/G562-12
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Globalization: an introduction / Richard Grant and John Rennie Short -- Globalization and the formation of claims / Saskia Sassen -- Opposition and resistance to globalization / Roland Robertson -- Subduing globalization: the challenge of the indigenization movement / Mehrzad Boroujerdi -- Globalization or localization? Rural advertising in India / Tej K. Bhatia -- Speaking from the margins: "postmodernism," transnationalism, and the imagining of contemporary Indian urbanity / Anthony D. King -- Globalization and women: gender and resistance in the informal sector of Peru / Maureen Hays-Mitchell -- Migrant communities in Accra, Ghana: marginalizing the margins / Deborah Pellow -- Foreign companies and glocalizations: evidence from Accra, Ghana / Richard Grant -- The effects of economic globalization: land use and land values in Mumbai, India / Jan Nijman -- Globalization and financial crises in Seoul, South Korea / Yeong-Hyun Kim -- Ordering a chaotic concept based on evidence from the margins / Richard Grant and John Rennie Short.