Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested TerritoriesPeter Dicken, Philip F. Kelly, Lily Kong, Kris Olds, Henry Wai-chung Yeung Most books that analyse the crucial subject of globalisation only look at it from a western perspective. This is the first detailed study to look at globalisation specifically in the Asia-Pacific region. An impressive collection of leading, interdisciplinary scholars explore various dimensions of globalisation and their relationship to development processes in the region. |
Contents
Part I Global discourses | 16 |
Part II Regional reformations | 86 |
Part III Reterritorialising the state | 140 |
Part IV Global lives | 173 |
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Name index | 273 |
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activities actors APEC argued Asia-Pacific Asian firms Asian NIEs Bank become Beijing billion cent centre chapter Chinese identity civil society competition concept context contradictions crisis cultural direct investment discourse East Asia economic management elites emerging emigrants environmental ethnic Europe example export financial markets Fordism foreign direct investment forms geographical Glick Schiller global capital global cities global economy globalisation Greater China growth hegemony Hong Kong hybridity ideology immigrants important increasing increasingly Indonesia institutions integration internationalisation interviewees investors issues Japan Japanese labour Malaysia migration nation-state neo-liberal networks organisation overseas Chinese Pacific Asian Philippines place-based political economy postcolonial problems processes production question recent regional regionalisation relations resistance role Sassen scale sector significant Singapore Singaporean social South Korea Southeast Asia space spatial specific strategies structures Taiwan Taiwanese territory time-space governance TNCs trade Tran Anh Hung trans-border transnational urban Yeung