Globalization and Beyond

Jon Shefner is Professor and Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico (Penn State, 2008).Patricia Fernández-Kelly is in the Sociology Department and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She is the author of For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico’s Frontier, and with Jon Shefner she edited Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America (Penn State, 2006).

“In this book, a distinguished array of scholars assess recent changes in the structures and processes of capitalist globalization, and their effects on the states and peoples in Latin America and Asia. Their focus is on the diminishing power of the United States, and the rising power of others. The overwhelming conclusion of the theory and research presented here is that the best solutions for the present crisis of neoliberalism will lie in the search for alternative, post-neoliberal strategies and that these will probably take different forms in different places. The volume will provide plenty of food for thought for those in corporate boardrooms, seats of political power, and academe alike.”—Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Hegemons, States, and AlternativesJon Shefner and Patricia Fernández-KellyPart I: Declining and Emerging Hegemons?1Beyond the Washington Consensus: A New Bandung?Giovanni Arrighi and Lu Zhang2Regionalism as an Alternative to Globalization: The East Asian CaseWalden Bello3China and Mexico in the Global Economy: Comparative Development Models in an Era of NeoliberalismGary Gereffi4Restructuring Mexico, Realigning Dependency: Harnessing Mexican Labor Power in the NAFTA EraJames M. Cypher and Raúl Delgado WisePart II: Alternative Expressions of Global Power5Globalization, Trade, and Development: From Territorial to Social Cartographies, from Nation-State/Interstate to Transnational ExplanationsWilliam I. Robinson6Popular Power in a Neoliberal World: How Global Interdependence Can Foster Democratic EmpowermentFrances Fox Piven7Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative StudyAlejandro Portes, Cristina Escobar, and Alexandria Walton Radford8Breaking with Market Fundamentalism: Toward Domestic and Global ReformFred Block9The (De)Coloniality of Knowledge, Life, and Nature: The North American–Andean Free Trade Agreement, Indigenous Movements, and Regional AlternativesCatherine Walsh10From Crisis to Opportunity: Globalization’s BeyondJon Shefner and Patricia Fernández-KellyContributorsIndex