The Limits of Globalization or What Is Sexual Harassment

The Limits of Globalization: Cases and Arguments

Author: Alan Scott

IThe Limits of Globalization criticizes the idea that globalization is an unstoppable historical force in the face of which politics are helpless and calls for a renewal of political projects which can defend society against markets. The limitations of the globalizing forces operating in the world today can best be understood through an analysis of their concrete manifestations. Using examples from the people's art of Potsdammer Platz to the ways in which Western cultural icons are reinterpreted in Asian magazines, this collection of essays unpicks the rhetoric of globalization in political analysis, cultural theory and urban and economic sociology and exposes the myth of the global society as in many cases a dangerous exaggeration.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction - Globalization: Social Process or Political Rhetoric?	1
2	The Futures of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz	25
3	The Global Common: The Global, Local and Personal; Dynamics of the Women's Peace Movement in the 1980s	55
4	'Across the Universe': The Limits of Global Popular Culture	75
5	An Asian Orientalism? Libas and the Textures of Postcolonialism	90
6	Elvis in Zanzibar	116
7	Chinese Entrepreneurship: Culture and Economic Actors	143
8	Globalization, Urban Change and Urban Policies in Britain and France	181
9	Air Transport and Globalization: A Sceptical View	202
10	Globalization, the Company and the Workplace: Some Interim Evidence from the Auto Industry in Britain	223
11	Nationalism and the Fall of the USSR	238
12	Globalization as an Emergent Concept	257
13	Wider Horizons with Larger Details: Subjectivity, Ethnicity and Globalization	284
14	The World Market Unbound	306
	Bibliography	327
	Index	350

See also: Lethal Passage or Giants

What Is Sexual Harassment?: From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne

Author: Abigail Cope Saguy

In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United States prohibit sexual relationships across hierarchical lines and sometimes among coworkers, arguing that these liaisons should have no place in the workplace. In this age of globalization, how do cultural and legal nuances translate? And when they differ, how are their subtleties and complexities understood? In comparing how sexual harassment--a concept that first emerged in 1975--has been defined differently in France and the United States, Abigail Saguy explores not only the social problem of sexual harassment but also the broader cultural concerns of cross-national differences and similarities.