Global Futures

THOMAS A. ACTON University of Greenwich BARNOR HESSE University of East London PHOEBE ISARD University of Sussex DOREEN MASSEY The Open University MARIE A. MATER Nanyang Technical University ROBERT MILES University of Glasgow JENNIFER PLATT University of Sussex ROGER SIBEON University of Liverpool NGAI-LING SUM University of Sheffield CLAIRE WALLACE Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna IAN WELSH University of Wales, Cardiff

Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization.Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization. Together, the various chapters in the collection offer a wide-ranging critique of those accounts which represent globalization primarily, if not exclusively, as the classic story of European modernity with its attendant narratives of ostensibly unfettered movement of people, unmitigated economic growth and social progress.