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An Introduction to Globalization is a major textbook on globalization designed specifically for introductory courses, actively encouraging students to engage with the topic and develop informed opinions about controversial debates.

Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration, iii

1.1 Introducing a World of Interdependency and a Word, 2

1.1.1 Globalization as integration, 3

1.1.2 Globalization as buzzword, 5

1.2 The Networks of Global Interdependency, 10

1.2.1 The interdependencies of commodities, 12

1.2.2 The interdependencies of workers, 14

1.2.3 The interdependencies of money, 16

1.2.4 The interdependencies of the law, 17

1.2.5 The interdependencies of governance, 18

1.2.6 The interdependencies of space, 20

1.2.7 The interdependencies of health, 21

2 Discourse, 27

2.1 Globalization as Dominant Discourse, 28

2.1.1 The myth of newness, 30

2.1.2 The myth of inevitability, 32

2.1.3 The myth of global leveling, 36

2.2 Dissident Discourse on Globalization, 41

3 Commodities, 57

3.1 What is a Commodity?, 58

3.2 World Trade, 60

3.3 Commodity Chains, 69

3.3.1 The emergence of global competition, 75

3.3.2 The development of global management, 76

4.1 Interdependence and the Far-from-Flat World of Workers, 100

4.2 The Changing Geographical Division of Labor, 107

4.3 The Changing Social Divisions of Labor, 116

4.3.1 Changing pattern of class division, 116

4.3.2 Changing pattern of gender division, 122

4.3.3 Changing patterns of racial division, 128

4.4 Transnational Responses of Organized Labor, 129

5 Money, 139

5.1 The Meanings of Money, 140

5.2 From Bretton Woods to the Rise of Global Finance, 148

5.2.1 From Bretton Woods to the breakdown of the dollar–gold peg, 152

5.2.2 Floating exchange rates and the development of the global casino, 154

5.2.3 Floating exchange rates and global recession, 158

5.2.4 The rise of debt-based dollar dominance, 159

5.3 Debt, Inequality, and Global Poverty Management, 165

5.3.1 The development of the debt crises, 165

5.3.2 Debt and dispossession, 167

5.3.3 Structural adjustment, 168

5.3.4 From debt rescheduling to debt relief, 170

5.3.5 Microcredit and microfinance, 174

6 Law, 181

6.1 Trade Agreements and the Globalization of Commercial Law, 182

6.1.1 Competition, 186

6.1.2 Harmonization, 189

6.1.3 Monopolization, 196

6.2 Courts, Human Rights, and Judicial Globalization, 202

6.3 Social Justice and the Grassroots Globalization of Law, 208

6.3.1 Cross-border judicial reform and harmonization, 208

6.3.2 Use of existing courts to fight transnational social justice cases, 211

6.3.3 Transnational advocacy networks (TANs), 216

7 Governance, 227

7.1 The End of the Nation-State?, 228

7.1.1 New-ness and national-state sovereignty, 231

7.1.2 Inevitability and national-state authority, 238

7.1.3 Leveling and national-state hegemony, 243

7.2 Inter-Governmental Institutions of Global Governance, 249

7.2.1 The IMF, World Bank, and the Institutionalization of American Interest, 250

7.2.2 Structural adjustment and the global entrenchment of “good governance”, 254

7.3 Non-Governmental Organizations of Global Governance, 262

7.3.1 How are NGOs and their practices governed?, 265

7.3.2 How does NGO governance relate to global governance?, 268

8 Space, 279

8.1 Uneven Development, Geopolitics, and Geoeconomics, 280

8.1.1 Between territorial fixing and geographical expansion, 285

8.2 Global Cities and Speculative Urbanism, 297

8.3 Enclaves, Slums, and Citizenship, 313

9 Health, 337

9.1 Interdependent Ecologies of Global Change, 338

9.1.1 Global environmental change and health, 341

9.2 Molecular Biomedicine and Global Health, 349

9.3 Globalization and Global Determinants of Health, 364

10 Responses , 389

10.1 Globalization and the Three “R”s: Reaction, Resilience, and Resistance, 390

10.2 Reaction and Resistance to Global Neoliberalization, 393

10.2.1 “Fair trade” versus “free trade”, 397

10.2.2 Protecting the public versus privatization, 399

10.2.3 Re-regulating versus deregulating business, 400

10.2.4 Spending on education, health, and social services versus austerity, 401

10.2.5 Wealth redistribution versus tax cuts, 402

10.2.6 Tax Forex markets versus chasing foreign investment, 403

10.2.7 Global worker solidarity and social justice versus de-unionization, 405

10.2.8 Local food and environmental security verusus export-led development, 406

10.2.9 Debt relief and local bartering versus anti-inflationary monetarism, 407

10.2.10 Promote open-source shared science on global priorities versus patents, 409

10.3 Resilience and Resistance in the Global University, 410

Glossary, 417

Index, 473

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Author(s): Matthew Sparke

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