Globalisation Domestic Politics and Regionalism or A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy

Globalisation, Domestic Politics and Regionalism: The ASEAN Free Trade Area, Vol. 5

Author: Helen E Nasadurai

This book examines the relationship between globalisation and regionalism through a detailed analysis of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) project. It analyses how the interaction between globalisation and domestic politics shaped the evolution of AFTA over the past 10 years, arguing that although AFTA was triggered primarily by the pressures of globalisation, it was a tussle between the imperatives of growth and domestic distribution that shaped the way economic cooperation unfolded and the forms it took.

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A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies

Author: V Spike Peterson

Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it.

Two features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shapes business decision-making and public policy-making, and the second is dramatic growth in informal and flexible work arrangements that shapes income-generation and family well-being. These developments, though widely recognized, are rarely analyzed as inextricable and interacting dimensions of globalization. Using a new theoretical model Peterson demonstrates the interdependence of reproductive, productive, and virtual economies, and analyzes inequalities of race, gender, class, and nation as structural features of neoliberal globalization.

Presenting a methodologically plural, cross-disciplinary and well-documented account of globalization, the author integrates marginalized and disparatefeatures of globalization to provide an accessible narrative from a postcolonial feminist vantage point.

Table of Contents:

	Series editors' preface
	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
1	Context and objectives	1
2	Theory matters	21
3	The productive economy	44
4	The reproductive economy	78
5	The virtual economy	113
6	The power of value	147
	Notes	174
	Bibliography	210
	Index	246