Ends of Globalization

Don Kalb is an anthropologist and associate professor of general sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Marco van der Land is a sociologist and consultant with A2 stAdsAdviseur in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Richard Staring is an anthropologist with the Rotterdam Institute for Social Policy Research at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Bart van Steenbergen is associate professor in the Department of General Social Sciences at the University of Utrecht. Nico Wilterdink is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and Vice Dean of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research.

• Chapter 1 Localizing Flows: Power, Paths, Institutions, and NetworksPart 2 Long Term and Theoretical PerspectivesChapter 3 Dimensions of Globaliaztion and the Dynamics of (In)EqualitiesChapter 4 The State and the New Geography of PowerChapter 5 States and Capital: Globalizations Past and PresentChapter 6 Class Compromise, Globalization and Technological ChangeChapter 7 The Global Economy: Myth or Reality?Chapter 8 Globalization, State Sovereignty, and the "Endless" Accumulation of CapitalPart 9 Income Inequality and Flows of Money and GoodsChapter 10 Income Inequality and Flows of Money and Goods: IntroductionChapter 11 Inequality and Globalization: Some Evidence from the United StatesChapter 12 Globalization and the New Inequality: A Classical ViewChapter 13 The Internationalization of Capital and Trends in Income Inequality in Western SocietiesPart 14 Flows of PeopleChapter 15 Flows of People: Globalization, Migration and Transnational CommunitiesChapter 16 Globalization, Vacancy Chains, or Migration Networks? Immigrant Employment and Income in Greater Los Angeles, 1970-1990Chapter 17 A World of Difference: Between the Global and the LocalChapter 18 Globalization from Below: The Rise of Transnational CommunitiesPart 19 Beyond the Mosaic: Globalization and Cultural IdentityChapter 20 Beyond th Mosaic: Questioning Cultural Identity in a Globalizing Age.Chapter 21 The Dialectics of Globalization and LocalizationChapter 22 Eating Globally: Cultural Flows and the Spread of Spread of Ethnic RestaurantsChapter 23 Technologies of Togetherness: Flows, Mobility and the Nation StatePart 24 Global Flows, Global InstitutionsChapter 25 Flows and Institutions: Globalization in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 26 Does Equality Travel? A Note on the Institutional Preconditions of Global EqualityChapter 27 The Quest for Humane Governance in an Era of GlobalizationPart 28 IndexPart 29 About the Contributors

The book is firm and accurate in its contention that contemporary globalization is but the lates turn in a much longer historical process.