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  • WHAT IS IN A RIM?
    ARIF DIRLIK
    In this volume, scholars question the current euphoria over the rapid growth of the Pacific rim - as an economic region and as a political ideal. They suggest that much of the discourse on the region is highly ideological, focusing on its potential for capitalist development while ignoring the limitations of such development, its human costs and consequences. This critique of t...

    $1,200.00

  • THE POSTCOLONIAL AURA
    ARIF DIRLIK
    The essays in this volume range from questions of cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. Although the new era of global capitalism calls for the remapping of global relations, such remapping must be informed both by a grasp of contemporary structures of economic, political, an...

    $1,320.00

  • MARXISM AND THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE
    ARIF DIRLIK / MAURICE MEISNER
    These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao's successors have given socialism. The themes have been selected for conceptual coherence within a socialist problematic of social change. Representing anthropology, art history, ec...

    $1,160.00

  • PEDAGOGIES OF THE GLOBAL
    ARIF DIRLIK
    The essays in this collection address questions raised by a modernity that has become global with the victory of capitalism over its competitors in the late twentieth century. Rather than erase difference by converting all to European-American norms of modernity, capitalist modernity as it has gone global has empowered societies once condemned to imprisonment in premodernity or...

    $2,100.00

  • GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND THE FUTURE OF AGRARIAN SOCIETY
    ARIF DIRLIK / ALEXANDER WOODSIDE / ROXANN PRAZNIAK
    This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. The book gives special attention to recent economic development and urbanization in the People s Republic of China which have had a major impact on contemporary transformations globally. ...

    $1,420.00

  • GLOBAL MODERNITY
    ARIF DIRLIK
    "A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition." William D. Coleman, Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University "An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University In his provocative new book Arif Dirlik argues ...

    $1,560.00