CONTENTS
List of figures = ⅶ
List of tables = ⅷ
Notes on contributors = ⅸ
Acknowledgements = xii
1 INTRODUCTION - GLOBALIZATION : SOCIAL PROCESS OR POLITICAL RHETORIC? / Alan Scott = 1
Part Ⅰ Contesting global forces
2 THE FUTURES OF BERLIN'S POTSDAMER PLATZ / Howard Caygill = 25
3 THE GLOBAL COMMON : THE GLOBAL, LOCAL AND PRESONAL; DYNAMICS OF THE WOMEN'S PEACE MOVEMENT IN THE 1980s / Sasha Roseneil = 55
Part Ⅱ Homogenized culture or enduring diversity?
4 'ACROSS THE UNIVERSE' : THE LIMITS OF GLOBAL POPULAR CULTURE / John Street = 75
5 AN ASIAN ORIENTALISM? LIBAS AND THE TEXTURES OF POSTCOLONIALISM / Rajika Jalan = 90
6 ELVIS IN ZANZIBER / Ahmed Gurnah = 116
7 CHINESE ENTREPRENEURSHIP : CULTURE AND ECONOMIC ACTORS / Julia Tao ; Wai-Nang Ho = 143
Part Ⅲ The national, the international and the global
8 GLOBALIZATION, URBAN CHANGE AND URBAN POLICIES IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE / Alan Harding ; Patrick Le Gl a ` s = 181
9 AIR TRANSPORT AND GLOBALIZATION : A SCEPTICAL VIEW / Hussein Kassim = 202
10 GLOBALIZATION, THE COMPANY AND THE WORKPLACE : SOME INTERIM EVIDENCE FROM THE AUTO INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN / Paul stewart ; Philip Garrahan = 223
11 NATIONALISM AND THE FALL OF THE USSR / Mike Bowker = 238
Part Ⅳ Theoretical reflections : social theory, cultural subjectivism and disembedded markets
12 GLOBALIZATION AS AN EMERGENT CONCEPT / Richard Kilminster = 257
13 WIDER HORIZONS WITH LARGER DETAILS : SUBJECTIVITY, ETHNICITY AND GLOBALIZATION / Cesare Poppi = 284
14 THE WORLD MARKET UNBOUND / Elmar Altvater ; Birgit Mahnkopf = 306
Bibliography = 327
Index = 350
FIGURES
2.1 Views of Potsdamer Platz, 1901-1953 = 27
2.2 Freidrich Gilly, perspective of the monument to Fredrick the Great, 1797 = 31
2.3 Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Triumphal Arch, 1817 = 33
2.4 Potsdamer Platz and the remains of Schinkel's gates, March 1946 = 36
2.5 Potsdamer Platz from the air, Fall 1935 = 36
2.6 Project Potsdamer Platz = 52
5.1 'Ode to Velvets; = 93
5.2 'Something in the way they move' = 96
5.3 'Boom Shack A Lack!!' = 103
10.1 NMTs and working harder = 232
10.2 The effect of MNTs on skill = 233
10.3 The effect of MNTs on physical effort = 234
10.4 The effect of MNTs on mental effort = 234
10.5 The effect of MNTs on job interest = 235
14.1 Mechanisms of disembedding = 310
14.2From disembedding to the external constraints of the world market and the loss of sovereignty in economic policy = 319
14.3 The complexity of the market = 324
