Global Social Change - Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Preface vii 1. Introduction 1(7) Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones 2. Conducting Global Social Research 8(25) Salvatore J. Babones I. What Is Globalization? 3. Global Social Change in the Long Run 33(26) Thomas D. Hall and Christopher Chase-Dunn 4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization 59(20) Leslie Sklair 5. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective 79(30) Christopher Chase-Dunn II. Global Inequality 6. Global Inequality: An Introduction 109(26) Jonathan H. Turner and Salvatore J. Babones 7. Global Energy Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term Implications 135(26) Bruce Podobnik III. Globalization and the Environment 8. Ecosystems and World-Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process 161(15) Alf Hornborg 9. Global Social Change, Natural Resource Consumption, and Environmental Degradation 176 Andrew K. Jorgenson IV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance 10. Spatial and Other "Fixes" of Historical Capitalism 201(12) Giovanni Arrighi 11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems Theory 213(28) Peter Gowan V. Global Social Movements 12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women's Mobilization 241(28) Valentine M. Moghadam 13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement 269(20) Frederick H. Buttel and Kenneth A. Gould 14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil. Society 289(28) Jackie Smith and Dawn Wiest VI. Democracy and Democratization 15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy 317(19) Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn 16. Globalization and the Future of Democracy 336(27) John Markoff List of Contributors 363(4) Index 367