Sklair, Leslie (2009) The emancipatory potential of generic globalization. Globalizations, 6 (4). pp. 525-539. ISSN 1474-7731
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The debate around globalization is entering a new and more mature phase reflected in the fact that it is now generally accepted that we live in an era of globalization. However, the concept is used in a bewildering variety of ways. Here I attempt to deconstruct it by distinguishing three modes of globalization in theory and practice, namely: generic, capitalist, and alternative globalizations. My argument is that globalization in a generic sense is too often confused with its dominant actually existing type, capitalist globalization. I define generic globalization in terms of (a) the electronic revolution; (b) postcolonialisms; (c) the subsequent creation of transnational social spaces; and (d) qualitatively new forms of cosmopolitanism. Capitalist globalization undermines the emancipatory potential of the four elements of generic globalization, resulting in what are termed here a new type of class polarization crisis and the crisis of ecological unsustainability. The article concludes with an attempt to sketch the main principles of a post-capitalist alternative form of democratic socialist globalization, based on networks of sustainable consumer-producer cooperatives operating at all appropriate social and geographical scales.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14747731.as... |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 Taylor & Francis |
| Divisions: | LSE Human Rights Sociology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2010 14:27 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2024 04:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/26787 |
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