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Globalization and democratization in Asia : the construction of identity

Author: Catarina Kinnvall; Kristina Jönsson
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An interdisciplinary text, this volume shows how simplified views of globalization, that define it as either good or bad, are unhelpful when analysing the impact globalizing forces are having on Asian societies.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Catarina Kinnvall; Kristina Jönsson
ISBN: 0415277302 9780415277303 0415277310 9780415277310 9780203361665 0203361660
OCLC Number: 50291217
Description: ix, 276 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Analyzing the global-local nexus / Catarina Kinnvall --
Globalization and the twilight of Asian exceptionalism / Lowell Dittmer --
Globalization and democratic governance: the Indian experience / Aswini K. Ray --
On alien Western democracy / Edward Friedman --
Imported democracy: the South Korean experience / Geir Helgesen --
What sort of democracy: predatory and neo-liberal agendas in Indonesia / Richard Robison --
Globalization, authoritarian regimes and political change: Vietnam and Laos / Kristina Jönsson --
Social movements, civil society and democracy in Japan / Hugo Dobson --
Globalization, democratization and civil society in Southeast Asia: observations from Malaysia and Thailand / Anders Uhlin --
Democratic citizenship and minority rights: a view from India / Bishnu N. Mohapatra --
Globalization and democratic developments in Southeast Asia: articulation and social responses / Shamsul A.B.--
Global imaginings, the states quest for hegemony, and the pursuit of phantom freedom in China: from Heshang to Falun Gong / Vivienne Shue --
Appropriating the global within the local: identity formation among the Minahasa in contemporary Indonesia / Michael Jacobsen --
The global-local nexus revisited: constructing Asia in times of globalization / Catarina Kinnvall and Kristina Jönsson.
Responsibility: edited by Catarina Kinnvall and Kristina Jönsson.
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An interdisciplinary text, this volume shows how simplified views of globalization, that define it as either good or bad, are unhelpful when analysing the impact globalizing forces are having on Asian societies.

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