The main argument of this book is that while globalization may reflect a set of very definite technological, economic, and cultural changes, the shape of its significance and its future trends are far from being rosy for mankind as a whole. The historical specificity of this process does not necessarily guarantee a symmetrical or homogeneous impact worldwide since its victims are in billions while their beneficiaries are just a tiny percentage of the world s population. This account of globalization is quite different from the neoliberal account, a discourse about progress and a rising tide that lifts all boats, a discourse that takes advantage of the historical processes of globalization in order to valorize particular economic prescriptions about how to operate the economy (through free trade, deregulation, and so on) -- and by implication, prescriptions about how to transform economics, politics, and culture. Highly recommended for research library collections focusing on Africa...

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