Global social change : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones.

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:viii, 371 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones
  • Conducting global social research / Salvatore J. Babones
  • What is globalization?
  • Global social change in the long run / Thomas D. Hall, Christopher Chase-Dunn
  • Competing conceptions of globalization / Leslie Sklair
  • Globalization : a world-systems perspective / Christopher Chase-Dunn
  • Global inequality
  • Global inequality : an introduction / Jonathan H. Turner, Salvatore J. Babones
  • Global energy inequalities : exploring the long-term implications / Bruce Podobnik
  • Globalization and the environment
  • Ecosystems and world systems : accumulation as an ecological process / Alf Hornborg
  • Global social change, natural resource consumption, and environmental degradation / Andrew W. Jorgenson
  • Globalization, hegemony, and global governance
  • Spatial and other "fixes" of historical capitalism / Giovanni Arrighi
  • Contemporary intracore relations and world systems theory / Peter Gowan
  • Global social movements
  • Gender and globalization : female labor and women's mobilization / Valentine M. Moghadam
  • Environmentalism and the trajectory of the anti-corporate globalization movement / Frederick H. Buttel, Kenneth A. Gould
  • National and global foundations of global civil society / Jackie Smith, Dawn Wiest
  • Transnational social movements and democratic socialist parties in the semiperiphery : on to global democracy / Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn
  • Globalization and the future of democracy / John Markoff.