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Title States and citizens : accommodation, facilitation and resistance to globalization / edited by Jon Shefner.

Publication Info. Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Current perspectives in social theory ; volume 34
Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 34.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Board; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mid-Level Theorizing on Macro Structures: Globalization, States, and Citizen Action; References; Part I Globalizing States; Fostering Consent in a Post-Fordist Regime: The Case of Industrial Maize Farming in Turkey; Abstract; Introduction; Fordist and Post-Fordist Modes of Regulation; Shift to a Post-Fordist Regime of Accumulation and Mode of Regulation in Turkish Agriculture; The Expansion of Maize Production as a Case of Post-Fordist Regime of Accumulation.
The Legitimation of Post-Fordist Accumulation in Maize Farming through RegulationConclusion; Notes; References; Appendix; Pharmaceutical Autonomy: Technology, Alliances, and Norms; Abstract; Dependency Theory and Global Capitalism Theory: Technology, Political Alliances, and Normative Discourses; Technological Capabilities; Political Alliances; Normative Framing; Pharmaceutical Autonomy: The Case of Brazil and AIDS Medications; Technology; Political Alliances; Normative Frameworks; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References.
Palm Oil Expansion in Indonesia: Land Grabbing as Accumulation by DispossessionAbstract; Introducing the Global Land Grab Debates: Empirical and Theoretical Questions; "Land Grab" Mythology, Indonesian Reality; Land Grabs as Accumulation by Dispossession (ABD); ABD over the Longue Durée in Indonesia; Colonial Appropriation; Post-Independence Authoritarian Appropriation; Creating "Demand," Demanding the Land; Neoliberal Expansion; Multiple and Uncertain Sequences in Response to ABD; Engagement11; Accommodation to ABD; From Resisting ABD to Defeat to ... Accommodation or Resistance?
"Cheerful" Accommodation?Failed ABD; Conclusion; Notes; References; Situating the Green Economy: Discourses, Cooptation, and State Change; Abstract; The Birth of SD (1960s-1980s); The Cooptation of SD (1980s-2000s); The Birth of the GE (2000s-Present); Creating Meaningful Change; Notes; References; The State in Context: Latin America's New Left and the Legacies of the State; Abstract; Introduction; Previous Models of the State in Latin America; The Corporatist State; The Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State; Clientelism and the State in Latin America; The Latin American Neoliberal State.
The New Left in Latin AmericaConclusion; Notes; References; Part II Globalizing Citizens; Racial Neoliberalism in Costa Rican Tourism: Blanqueamiento in the Twenty-First Century; Abstract; Introduction; Race, Capitalism, and Neoliberalism; Racial Neoliberalism and Costa Rica; Colorblind Ideology; Racial Material Practice; Racial Neoliberal Networks; Tamarindo Inclusion; Cahuita Exclusion; Racial Neoliberal Conservation and Activism; Maritime Zone Law; White and Black Fights with Maritime Zone Law; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References.
Summary This volume examines how states and citizens have been able to address globalization in different ways across the Global North and South. Authors examine the state as it forms policies in agro-production, contends with critical constituencies, and rebuilds capacity to act in the popular interest after forty years of neoliberal assault.
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Subject Globalization -- Social aspects.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Shefner, Jon, 1958- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Shefner, Jon. States and Citizens : Accommodation, Facilitation and Resistance to Globalization. Bradford : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ©2015 9781785601811
ISBN 9781785601804 (electronic book)
1785601806 (electronic book)
9781785601811