Globalization and the postcolonial world : the new political economy of development

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Title:

Author:

Hoogvelt, Ankie M. M.

ISBN:

9780801856440

Personal Author:

Hoogvelt, Ankie M. M.

Publication Information:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Physical Description:

xvi, 291 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Pt. I. Historical Structures. 1. The History of Capitalist Expansion. 2. Neo-colonialism, Modernisation and Dependency. 3. Crisis and Restructuring: The New International Division of Labour -- Pt. II. Globalisation. 4. From expansion to Implosion. 5. From Fordist to Flexible Production. 6. Globalisation. 7. Global Regulation -- Pt. III. The Postcolonial World. 8. Africa: Exclusion and the Containment of Anarchy. 9. Islamic Revolt. 10. The Developmental States of East Asia. 11. Democracy, Civil Society and Postdevelopment in Latin America.

Abstract:

Globalization is at the heart of debates about the present phase of development of the world economy. In Globalization and the Postcolonial World, Ankie Hoogvelt joins these debates to examine the ways in which globalization is affecting the countries of the developing world. Taking a new look at historical trends and theories in development studies, Hoogvelt places special emphasis on emerging global forms of production, exchange, and governance. She describes the diverse impacts of globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and Latin America, the identifying different postcolonial responses in each of these regions.

Subject Term:

Globalization.

International economic relations.

Capitalism -- Developing countries.

Competition, International.

Geographic Term:

Developing countries -- Foreign economic relations.

Developing countries -- Dependency on foreign countries.

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Globalization has created a new architecture of core-periphery relations in the world economy, in which social divisions replace geographic divisions.

Taking a new look at historical trends and theories in development studies, Hoogvelt places special emphasis on emerging global forms of production, exchange, and governance. She describes the diverse impacts of globalization in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and Latin America, identifying different postcolonial responses in each of these regions.

Hoogvelt concludes that today the social logic of globalization drives the economics of globalization--in contrast to the past, in which economic forces stimulated the integration of human societies across international borders. Globalization, she concludes, has created a new architecture of core-periphery relations in the world economy, in which social divisions replace geographic divisions and in which the politics of exclusion replace the politics of incorporation characteristic of previous phases of capitalist expansion.