Critical Globalization Studies

William Robinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Promoting Polyarchy, which won the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Political Economy of the World System section of the American Sociological AssociationRichard Appelbaum is Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published opinion pieces in The Los Angeles Times and The AmericanProspect. His most recent books include Behind the Label, States and Economic Development in the Asian Pacific Rim, and Sociology, and introductory textbook.

• Part 1: Introduction Richard P. Appelbaum and William I. Robinson Towards Critical Globalization Studies: Continued debates, new directions, neglected topics Part 2: What Are Critical Globalization Studies? 1. Susan George If You Want To Be Relevant: Advice to the academic from a scholar-activist 2. William I. Robinson What Are Critical Globalization Studies?: Intellectual labor and global society 3. James H. Mittelman Conceptualizing Critical Globalization Studies Part 2: The Debate On Globalization: Competing approaches and perspectives 4. Giovanni Arrighi Globalization in World-System Perspective 5. Christopher Chase-Dunn and Barry Gills Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World System: Social movements and critical global studies 6. Leslie Sklair Generic Globalization, Capitalist Globalization and Beyond: A framework for critical globalization studies 7. Victor Roudometof Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Errors of globalism 8. Darren J. O'Byrne Toward a Critical Theory of Globalization: A Habermasian approach Part 3: What Is The Nature Of Power And Conflict In The World Today? 9. David Harvey From Globalization to the New Imperialism 10. Walden Bello The Crisis of the Globalist Project and the New Economics of George W. Bush 11. Philip McMichael Globalization and Development 12. Howard Winant Globalization and Racism: At home and abroad 13. Peter McLaren and Nathalia E. Jaramillo Alternative Globalizations: Toward critical globalization studies 14. Jerry Harris The Military-Industrial Complex in Transnational Class Theory Part 4: New Directions in Globalization Research and Implications of Globalization for Scholarship in the Academy 15. Saskia Sassen The Many Scales of the Global Implications for Theory and for Politics 16. Norma Chinchilla Globalization, International Migration, and Transnationalism: Some Observations Based On The Central American Experience 17. Steve Derne Globalization and the Emergence of a Transnational Middle Class: Implications for class analysis 18. Barrie Axford Critical Globalization Studies and a Network Perspective on Global Civil Society 19. A. Claire Cutler Critical Globalization Studies and International Law under Conditions of Postmodernity and Late Capitalism 20. Lisa Hajjar Towards a Sociology of Human Rights: Critical globalization studies, international law, and the future of war 21. Richard Falk Reimagining the Governance of Globalization 22. Jeffrey Henderson Governing Growth and Inequality: The continued relevance of strategic economic planning 23. Rhacel Salazar Parrenas The International Division of Reproductive Labor: Paid domestic work and globalization 24. Jean L. Pyle Critical Globalization Studies and Gender 25. G. Reginald Daniel Beyond Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism: Globalization, 'critical hybridity,' and 'postcolonial blackness' 26. Lauren Langman and Karen Halnon Globalization and the Grotesque Part 5: Linking Globalization Studies to Global Resistance Movements: Marginalized voices and neglected topics 27. Ramon Grosfoguel The Implications of Subaltern Epistemologies for Global Capitalism 28. David A. Smith Neo-Liberal Globalization and Resistance: A retrospective look 29. Beverly J. Silver Historical Dynamics of Globalization, War and Social Protest 30. Hung Cam Thai Globalization as a Gender Strategy: Respectability, masculinity, and convertibility across the Vietnamese diaspora 31. Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran and Molly Talcott "The Red, the Green, the Black, and the Purple: Reclaiming development, resisting globalization" 32. Ligaya Lindio McGovern Transnational Feminism and Globalization: Bringing third world women's voices from the margin to the center 33. Valentine M. Moghadam Globalization and Transnational Feminist Networks (or How Neoliberalism and Fundamentalism Riled the World's Women) 34. Edna Bonacich Labor and the Global Logistics Revolution 35. Richard Appelbaum Fighting Sweatshops: Problems of enforcing global labor standards 36. Tran Ngoc Angie Sewing for the Global Economy: Threat of resistance in Vietnamese garment industry 37. Anita Roddick A Revolution in Kindness 38. Njoki Njorogo Njehu Globalization: A path to understanding or global plunder?