> Anyone get the new book by Justin Rosenberg from Verso yet?
> http://www.versobooks.com/
> http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/rosenberg_follies.shtml
> In these pages Justin Rosenberg develops an erudite and lively
critique
> of contemporary globalisation theory. He argues that fashionable
> preoccupations with spatiality have generated deep intellectual confusions
> that stand in the way of a clear understanding of the modern world. And he
> shows how these confusions ultimately condemn globalisation theorists to a
> peculiar and quixotic stance: the more clearly they attempt to articulate
> their arguments, the more equivocal and evasive those arguments become.
>
> The Follies of Globalisation Theory looks first at the broad field of
> international relations. It then turns its attention to a work widely
> credited with providing a sociological foundation for globalisation
theory,
> Anthony Giddens's The Consequences of Modernity. Rosenberg submits
Giddens's
> theory to a thorough, often highly entertaining interrogation, and
concludes
> by drawing out the implications of his critique for globalisation theory
in
> general.
>
> Justin Rosenberg is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the
> University of Sussex. He is the author of The Empire of Civil Society,
which
> won the 1994 Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. Publication
> April 2001
> 224 pages
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Perelman" <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu>
> To: <pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:35 PM
> Subject: [PEN-L:14112] globalization
>
>
> > Maybe we should stop using the expression globalization when the
> > conservative stop using the term, free markets. Doug is correct
> > that globalization is a long process, which has increased over
> > the years, despite setbacks, such as during the depression.
> >
> > The term, however, resonates. I think that capitalist
> > intensifaction has a more frightening sound to my ears, but I
> > don't think it will resonate.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Michael Perelman
> > Economics Department
> > California State University
> > Chico, CA 95929
> >
> > Tel. 530-898-5321
> > E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
> >
>