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Prologue : the turning of the tide / Barry K. Gills -- Introduction / Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely -- Globalization or the age of transition? : a long-term view of the trajectory of the world-system / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Neoliberal globalization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Business as usual or radical shift? : theorizing the relationship between US hegemony and globalization / Ray Kiely -- The future of globalization / Manfred B. Steger -- Globalization : whose benefit anyway? / Abbas Mehdi -- Globalization and its future shock / Samir Dasgupta -- Global environmental crisis and ecological futures / Sing C. Chew -- Art, Mcdonaldization, and the globalization of nothing / George Ritzer -- The impact of globalization on local communities / Robyn Bateman Driskell -- Globalization and after? : continuity and change in the politics of securitization and responsibility / Jarrod Wiener and Jessica Young -- Capitalist globalization and the anti-globalization movement / Leslie Sklair -- Social movements in a globalized world / Elvira del Pozo Aviñó́-- The effects of global economic expansion on organized resistance / Ernest M. De Zolt -- Division and dissent in the anti-globalization movement / Tomás Mac Sheoin and Nicola Yeates -- New labour protest movements in Hong Kong : the experience of student-worker mutual aid campaign / Kaxton Yu-Kwan Siu -- Globalization and new social movements : lessons from South Asia / Ponna Wignaraja.