Globalization and the Margins

TEJ K. BHATIA Professor of Linguistics, Syracuse UniversityMEHRZAD BOROUJERDI Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Syracuse UniversityANTHONY D. KING Professor of Art History, and of Sociology, State University of New York, BinghamptonMAUREEN HAYS-MITCHELL Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Colgate UniversityYEONG-HYUN KIM Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio UniversityJAN NIJMAN Professor of Geography and Regional Studies, University of MiamiDEBORAH PELLOW Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse UniversityROLAND ROBERTSON Professor of Sociology and Director, Centre for the Study of Globalization, University of AberdeenSASKIA SASSEN Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics

• List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Notes on the Contributors List of Acronyms PART I: THEORETICAL THREADS ON GLOBALIZATION Globalization: An Introduction; J.Rennie Short & R.Grant Globalization and the Formation of Claims; S.Sassen Opposition and Resistance to Globalization; R.Robertson Subduing Globalization: The Challenge of the Indigenization Movement; M.Boroujerdi PART II: GLOBALIZATION ON THE MARGINS Globalization or Localization? Rural Advertising in India; T.K.Bhatia Speaking from the Margins: 'Postmodernism,' Transnationalism and the Imagining of Contemporary Indian Urbanity; A.D.King PART III: GLOBALIZATION IN THE MARGINS Globalization and Women at the Urban Margins: Gender and Resistance in the Information Sector of Peru; M.Hays-Mitchell Migrant Communities in Accra: Marginalizing the Margins; D.Pellow Foreign Companies and Margins: Evidence from Accra, Ghana; R.Grant The Effects of Economic Globalization in the Margins: Land Use and Land Values in Mumbai; J.Nijman Globalization and Financial Crises in Seoul; Y.Kim Conclusions: Ordering a Chaotic Concept from the Margins; R.Grant & J.Rennie Short Index