TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nederveen Pieterse,Jan
TI  - Global futures: shaping globalization 
SN  - 1856498026
AV  - HM901 .G58 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London, New York, New York, N.Y.
PB  - Zed Books, Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press
KW  - Social prediction
KW  - Economic forecasting
KW  - Progress
KW  - Culture
KW  - International economic relations
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Globalization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Shaping globalization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Humane governance for the world: reviving the quest / Richard Falk -- Globalization: a developmental approach / Jan Pronk -- World economic changes at the threshold of the twenty-first century / Louis Emmerij -- Life beyond global economic warfare / Hazel Henderson -- The mosaic of global taxes / Howard M. Wachtel -- An alternative to global marketization / Sakamoto Yoshikazu -- The local dimensions of global reform / Fantu Cheru -- Poverty and the politics of alternatives at the end of the millennium / Michael Watts -- Environmental justice as a force for sustainability / Joan Martinez-Alier -- Feminist futures / Azza M. Karam -- Culture and economic growth: the state and globalization / Keith Griffin -- Technologies of post-human development and the potential for global citizenship / Mike Featherstone -- Cities: contradictory utopias / Anthony D. King
N2  - "This is the first book to go beyond globalization. Its eminent contributors reject a fatalistic stance in the face of the problems that accelerating globalization is throwing up. Instead, they argue that humanity must make seek to shape globalization. In a sequence of tightly argued essays, they suggest a variety of innovative perspectives, changes, policies and institutional reforms that we ought to strive for in our increasingly inter-connected world. The exciting range of topics discussed include global governance and democratization; international finance and reform of the world economy; Third World development; the environment; the position of women; poverty and social exclusion; technology and culture; and the future shape of urban growth. Optimistic and inventionist in tone, this book provides a one-stop overview of thinking about global reform. Bristling with ideas, its new angle on globalization brings together different domains of transformation and different disciplines, looking to a future in which humanity consciously influences, improves and humanizes what may otherwise be seen as an impersonal and destructive juggernaut."--Back cover
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