New in Paperback
Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices
Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge – 226 pages
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Description
This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the overall economic globalization phenomenon in the global world. Through empirical case studies of different civilizations or cultures that describe situations of intertwining of local socio-economic practices and global economic modernity, this volume assesses the overall situation in the world, looking at the world as an economic system where some countries act as winners, others as losers and some as both winners and losers of economic globalization. This exceptional book will appeal to sociologists, social and cultural anthropologists, and economists interested in development.
Contents
Preface
Ulrike Schuerkens
1 Transformations of Local Socio-economic Practices in a Global World: A Theoretical Approach and Some Empirical Evidence from Different World Regions
Ulrike Schuerkens
2 Contradictions of Social Responsibility – (German) Business Elites and Globalization
Peter Imbusch
3 Negotiating Neo-liberalism: Free-Market Reform in Central and Eastern Europe
Nina Bandelj
4 Mobilizing International Auditing Standards in Arenas of Political and Economic Change in Post-Soviet Russia
Andrea Mennicken
5 China’s Response to Globalization: Manufacturing Confucian Values
Thierry Pairault
6 The Export of Cultural Commodities as Impression Management: The Case of Thailand
Frederick F. Wherry
7 Informal and Formal Economy in Caracas: Street Vending and Globalization
Mathilde Gauvain
8 Common roots, shared traits, joint prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in Benin and Haiti
Dirk Kohnert
9 Rethinking “Free-Trade” Practices in Contemporary Togo: Women Entrepreneurs in the Global Textile Trade
Nina Sylvanus
10 Outcomes and Perspectives
Ulrike Schuerkens
Index
Author Bio
Schuerkens is a Lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)
Name: Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens. This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic...
Categories: International Economics, Development Economics, Social Policy, Social Inequality, Development - Soc Sci, Globalisation, Political Geography, Economics and Development
