Local Responses to Global Integration - Hardcover

 
9781840148442: Local Responses to Global Integration
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1840148446 ISBN 13: 9781840148442
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1999

Synopsis

This text sets out to discuss the various aspects of local responses to the globalization process, drawing from empirical work carried out in various countries worldwide. Globalization is seen as an economic and social process which has taken a more pervasive form in contemporary society, leading to an increasing similarity of production and consumption patterns and a worldwide movement of products, people, services and cultures. Rural areas have undoubtably experienced the impact of such a process by adopting new functions as both producers and consumers. However, they are not characterized by uniformity, integration or resistance, being rather a reflection of their accumulated history. In this connection, the main argument of the book is that rural development strategies emerge in response to both homogenization and marginalization processes. Forms of production and consumption of both goods have developed and localities, as specific social spaces, have put forward their own diversities. The book's main features are its international empirical character and the multidimensional consideration of both potential and actual responses to global integration.

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Synopsis

This text sets out to discuss the various aspects of local responses to the globalization process, drawing from empirical work carried out in various countries worldwide. Globalization is seen as an economic and social process which has taken a more pervasive form in contemporary society, leading to an increasing similarity of production and consumption patterns and a worldwide movement of products, people, services and cultures. Rural areas have undoubtably experienced the impact of such a process by adopting new functions as both producers and consumers. However, they are not characterized by uniformity, integration or resistance, being rather a reflection of their accumulated history. In this connection, the main argument of the book is that rural development strategies emerge in response to both homogenization and marginalization processes. Forms of production and consumption of both goods have developed and localities, as specific social spaces, have put forward their own diversities. The book's main features are its international empirical character and the multidimensional consideration of both potential and actual responses to global integration.

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Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1840148446
ISBN 13 
9781840148442
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
274
Editor
Kasimis Charalambos, Papadopoulos Apostolos G.

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