Critical Theories of Globalization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Chamsy el-Ojeili, Patrick Hayden

   Pages 1-4

3. Theorizing Globalization: Introducing the Challenge

   • Chamsy el-Ojeili, Patrick Hayden

   Pages 5-48

4. Economic Globalization

   • Chamsy el-Ojeili, Patrick Hayden

   Pages 49-88

5. Globalization and Politics

   • Chamsy el-Ojeili, Patrick Hayden

   Pages 89-133

6. Cultural Globalization

   • Chamsy el-Ojeili, Patrick Hayden

   Pages 134-177

7. Resisting Globalization: The Alternative Globalization Movement

   • Chamsy el-Ojeili, Patrick Hayden

   Pages 178-213

8. Back Matter

   Pages 214-241

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This accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of globalization and its consequences from the perspective of social and political critical theory. Thematic chapters provoke student inquiry and the book shows how the views of critical theorists are crucial to understanding the global processes shaping the world today.

• critical theory
• globalization
• politics

'El-Ojeili and Hayden provide an engaging treatment of a subject worn to death by staid, conventional accounts. Using an accessible version of critical theory, they explore the interconnected sinews of globalization and consider its many tensions and contradictions. Their insights and reflections will be of use to students for many years.' - Randall Germain, Carleton University, Canada

'...this volume is an insightful repository on how theoretical frameworks tend to foreclose certain perspectives on global interactions while favouring others.' - Emilian Kavalski, Political Studies Review

• Department of Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

  Chamsy el-Ojeili

• School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK

  Patrick Hayden

CHAMSY EL-OJEILI is Lecturer in Sociology at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is author of From Left Communism to Postmodernism: Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse (2003) and co-editor of Confronting Globalization (2005) and of the journal New Zealand Sociology.

PATRICK HAYDEN is Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Cosmopolitan Global Politics (2005), John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order (2002) and co-editor of Confronting Globalization (2005) and America's War on Terror (2003).