Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization. Together, the various chapters in the collection offer a wide-ranging critique of those accounts which represent globalization primarily, if not exclusively, as the classic story of European modernity with its attendant narratives of ostensibly unfettered movement of people, unmitigated economic growth and social progress.

THOMAS A. ACTON University of Greenwich
BARNOR HESSE University of East London
PHOEBE ISARD University of Sussex
DOREEN MASSEY The Open University
MARIE A. MATER Nanyang Technical University
ROBERT MILES University of Glasgow
JENNIFER PLATT University of Sussex
ROGER SIBEON University of Liverpool
NGAI-LING SUM University of Sheffield
CLAIRE WALLACE Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna
IAN WELSH University of Wales, Cardiff

IMAGINING THE GLOBAL Whither 'The Global'?; A.Brah, M.Hickman & M.Ghail Imagining Globalisation: Power-Geometries of Time-Space; D.Massey RISK SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE Risk, 'Race' and Global Environmental Regulation; I.Welsh Global Environmental Change Discourse; the Southern Critique; M.Mater Governance and the Postnational Policy Process; R.Sibeon SYNERGETIC/DISCREPANT DIFFERENCES New Orientalisms, Global Capitalism; N.Sum Reviewing the Western Spectacle; B.Hesse Globalisation, the Pope and the Gypsies; T.Acton MIGRATION AND GLOBALISATION The Political Economy of Immigration Control; R.Miles Crossing Borders; C.Wallace Migration and Globalisation in Intellectual life; J.Platt & P.Isard