Globalization, the State, and Violence

by Jonathan Friedman (Editor), Terence Turner (Contribution by), Saskia Sassen (Contribution by), Simone Ghezzi (Contribution by), Enzo Mingione (Contribution by), Michel Wieviorka (EHESS (Contribution by), , Paris) (Contribution by), Unni Wikan (Contribution by), Donald M. Nonini (Contribution by), Nina Glick Schiller (Contribution by), Georges Fouron (Contribution by), Bruce Kapferer (Contribution by), Steve Reyna (Contribution by), Steven Sampson (Contribution by), Kajsa Ekholm Friedman (Contribution by)

Overview

A dozen essays by US and European urbanists, anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists develop an approach to understanding the increasing violence that has occurred on a global scale over the past couple decades, and try to construct a more adequate comprehension of global processes than has been provided in the language of globalization. Among the topics are class projects, social consciousness, and the contradictions of globalization; and the case for citizenship as social contract. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759102804
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	04/15/2003
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.62(h) x 1.23(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Friedman is Directeur d'Études, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and professor of social anthropology at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Globalization, Dis-integration, Reorganization, the Transformations of Violence Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2: Class Projects, Social Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Globalization Chapter 3: Economic Globalization and the Redrawing of Citizenship Chapter 4: Beyond the Informal Economy: New Trends in Post-Fordist Transition Chapter 5: The New Paradigm of Violence Chapter 6: The Case for Citizenship as Social Contract: A Tale of Two Girls Chapter 7: American Neoliberalism, "Globalization" and Violence: Reflections from the United States and Southeast Asia Chapter 8: Killing Me Softly: Violence, Globalization, and the Apparent State Chapter 9: Sorcery and the Shapes of Globalization, Disjunctions and Continuities in Sri Lanka Chapter 10: Imagining Monsters: A Structural History of Warfare in Chad Chapter 11: "Trouble Spots": Projects, Bandits and State Fragmentation Chapter 12: State-Classes, the Logic of Rentier Power and Social Disintegration: Global Parameters and Local Structures of the Decline of the Congo

Editorial Reviews

Jonathan Friedman's Globalization, the State, and Violence is one of the most recent attempts to make sense of the disparate global conditions that are the subject of globalization discourse. . . . [It] stands on its own as a respectable and well-argued piece of research that makes a valid empirical contribution to globalization literature.

Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 23, No.4, Fall 2003 - Eric A. Heinze