The Politics of the Global
Himadeep Muppidi
Refusing the false choice between objectivity and subjectivity, Himadeep Muppidi considers the production of the global as an intersubjective process that reveals the different political possibilities (e.g., colonial coercion, postcolonial ambivalence, and postcolonial co-option) opened by global relays of meanings, identity, and power. Muppidi concludes by exploring a variety of spaces and strategies for resisting the colonization of the global.
The Politics of the Global is a pathbreaking work in the development of international political economy. Innovative and analytically rigorous, this book does a great deal to advance our understanding of globalization.
Timothy Sinclair, editor of Global Governance: Critical Concepts in Political Science
Though presented often as an objective process, globalization is frequently analyzed from subjective perspectives that are closed to their own historical and geographical specificity. Refusing the false choice between objectivity and subjectivity, Himadeep Muppidi considers the production of the global as an intersubjective process involving the interplay of meanings, identities, and practices from historically different locations.
Muppidi illustrates how the politics of globalization are played out in two multicultural democracies, India and the United States—particularly rich examples given the increasing interactions between them in the areas of global economy and security. Software experts and skilled professionals flow from India to the United States; the United States outsources service sector jobs to India. Although they differ in their approaches to worldwide regulation of weapons of mass destruction, India and the United States cooperate in opposing terrorism. Treating globalization as an intersubjective process reveals the different political possibilities (e.g., colonial coercion, postcolonial ambivalence, and postcolonial co-option) that are opened by global relays of meanings, identities, and power. Muppidi concludes by exploring a variety of spaces and strategies for resisting the colonization of the global.
$22.50 paper ISBN 978-0-8166-4248-9
$60.00 cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-4247-2
152 pages, 5 7/8 x 9, 2004
Himadeep Muppidi is assistant professor of political science at Vassar College.
The Politics of the Global is a pathbreaking work in the development of international political economy. Innovative and analytically rigorous, this book does a great deal to advance our understanding of globalization.
Timothy Sinclair, editor of Global Governance: Critical Concepts in Political Science
This book is written with extraordinary clarity and sophistication and offers arguments of substantial theoretical and political significance.
Mark Rupert, author of Ideologies of Globalization: Contending Visions of a New World Order
Himadeep Muppidi has written a short, sophisticated, and provocative book that pushes its readers to think hard about global politics.
Perspectives on Politics
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Local and the Global
1. Colonial Globalities
2. Critical Constructivism
3. Globalization in India
4. Globalization in the United States
5. Productions of the Global
Conclusion: Resistance and Rearticulation
Notes
Works Cited
Index