After Globalization

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"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-divisionundergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 August2012) "Relentlessly, remorselessly, endlessly, we are told there is noalternative to globalization, whether our lecturers arebourgeois economists, progressive journalists, orimaginative litterateurs. Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman dareto go beyond the standard thinking of the day and query the veryheart of mobile capital and its impact on daily life. Theiralternative vision breathes new life into our sense of evolutionand inevitability." Toby Miller, author ofGlobalization and Sport and --Global Hollywood "Cazdyn and Szeman begin the with the idea that the currenteconomic crisis has historicized globalization, turning it from aprocess that looked as inevitable as, say, global warming stilldoes, into an episode in the history of capitalism: hence thepossibility not just of more globalization but of an 'afterglobalization.' And hence also, they argue, the renewed possibilityof an 'after capitalism.' In powerful critiques of what theydescribe as the common sense of capital today they sketch out theterms in which changes more radical than substituting generous andhonest leaders for the greedy and dishonest ones we've currentlygot might begin to be imagined." --Walter Benn Michaels,University of Illinois at Chicago