Gwynne / Shaw / Klak Alternative Capitalisms: Geographies of Emerging Regions

Geographies of emerging regions
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4441-1890-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as 'emerging regions'. These are Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia. This book breaks new ground in three areas. First of all it develops a critique of the use of the term "emerging regions" for geographers and social scientists and relates this to world-systems theory. Secondly, it explores the development trajectories and challenges of countries in this so-called emerging world, countries that will be crucial to the evolution of the world economy in the twenty-first century. Thirdly, it compares and contrasts the pathways of both economic and political change in the three world regions under focus. This is a unique approach in terms of books published in both geography and the social sciences.

Within the context of the three world regions, the book combines historical and contemporary analysis of the evolving world-system. In these regions we are concerned to understand the historical expansion and extension of capitalism and how its contemporary forms of production, exchange and regulation are evolving. The authors believe that at the present time these processes have produced 'alternative capitalisms' - economic and associated developments which, while assuredly capitalist, differ in various ways from those typical of the capitalist West or 'core economies' of North America and Western Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gwynne, Robert

Shaw, Denis

Klak, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS

Chapter 1: “EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES†AND ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION

Chapter 2: CONCEPTUALIZING THE WORLD SYSTEM

Chapter 3: CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND THE EMERGING

WORLD: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

PART TWO: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS

Chapter 4: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE

FORMER SOVIET UNION

Chapter 5: CAPITALISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE

CARIBBEAN

Chapter 6: EAST ASIA: THE JAPANESE AND CHINESE

DEVELOPMENT MODELS AND THEIR REGIONAL IMPACTS

PART THREE: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE

Chapter 7: TRADE LIBERALIZATION, ECONOMIC

TRANSFORMATION AND INTEGRATION

Chapter 8: GEOGRAPHIES OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION

Chapter 9: THE TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION AND

EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES

Chapter 10: GEOGRAPHIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS

IN EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES

Chapter 11: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE GROWTH OF

SERVICES

PART FOUR: POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE

Chapter 12: MODERNITY AND NATIONALITY

Chapter 13: MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY

Chapter 14: CONCLUSION: ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS

AND GLOBALIZATION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Gwynne is Reader in Latin American Studies at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

Thomas Klak is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Miami Univeristy - Oxford, Ohio, USA

Denis Shaw is Reader in Russian Geography at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK