“…NLG's picture may be summarized by how it is “imagined” from one TNC perspective:I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants, when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour and social conventions. (Cited in Knight :329)NLG's laudable goals are divorced from how they play out in practice.…”
Section: Neoliberal Globalization: For Better or Worse?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants, when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour and social conventions. (Cited in Knight :329)…”
Section: Neoliberal Globalization: For Better or Worse?mentioning
Research on trends in globalization, particularly its neoliberal variant, has exploded but sources linking these trends to gender equity are difficult to uncover. Discussed mainly in the context of development, gender issues tend to be marginalized from the larger globalization picture. With World Bank as a backdrop, this article disentangles development from the process to inspect the connection between neoliberal globalization (NLG) and gender equity. This is accomplished through three cost‐benefit analyses: an overall evaluation of NLG; how gender equity unfolds under NLG; and how it unfolds under NLG in China. Macroeconomic trends supplemented with examples documenting the plight of women under NLG policies, including garment industry workers in Bangladesh, suggest heightened gender peril ushered in with NLG. China's “state capitalism” modification of NLG, however, tends to mitigate negative consequences for women. A paradigm shift from hegemonic NLG to state capitalism models may offer successful global economic policies that are especially beneficial to women. I conclude with an epilogue reflecting on my original remarks in light of the horrific factory collapse that occurred in Bangladesh less than a month after this address.
“…NLG's picture may be summarized by how it is “imagined” from one TNC perspective:I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants, when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour and social conventions. (Cited in Knight :329)NLG's laudable goals are divorced from how they play out in practice.…”
Section: Neoliberal Globalization: For Better or Worse?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants, when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour and social conventions. (Cited in Knight :329)…”
Section: Neoliberal Globalization: For Better or Worse?mentioning
Research on trends in globalization, particularly its neoliberal variant, has exploded but sources linking these trends to gender equity are difficult to uncover. Discussed mainly in the context of development, gender issues tend to be marginalized from the larger globalization picture. With World Bank as a backdrop, this article disentangles development from the process to inspect the connection between neoliberal globalization (NLG) and gender equity. This is accomplished through three cost‐benefit analyses: an overall evaluation of NLG; how gender equity unfolds under NLG; and how it unfolds under NLG in China. Macroeconomic trends supplemented with examples documenting the plight of women under NLG policies, including garment industry workers in Bangladesh, suggest heightened gender peril ushered in with NLG. China's “state capitalism” modification of NLG, however, tends to mitigate negative consequences for women. A paradigm shift from hegemonic NLG to state capitalism models may offer successful global economic policies that are especially beneficial to women. I conclude with an epilogue reflecting on my original remarks in light of the horrific factory collapse that occurred in Bangladesh less than a month after this address.
“…All of these will have a huge impact on China’s future’. This assessment echoed Deng’s ‘open door’ policy, which implied not only an economic involvement with the capitalist world – through trade, investment and technology transfer – but also an opening up to carefully selected ideas and cultural forms originating in the west (Knight, 2003: 318; Ness and Raichur, 1983: 85). The foregoing discussion indicates that the government of the PRC has been effective, so far at least, in controlling the extent and impact of greater commercialisation at the Olympic elite level.…”
“…All of these will have a huge impact on China's future. (2003: 5) This assessment echoed Deng's "open door" policy, which implied not only greater economic involvement with the capitalist world -through trade, investment and technology transfer -but also an opening up to carefully selected ideas and cultural forms originating in the west (Knight, 2003). In order to fully understand this particular blend of the absorption of global influences and the continuing emphasis on state socialism in China, a coalition of the social scientific sub-disciplines is essential.…”
Section: Future Directions For the Sociology Of Sport: On Globalisatimentioning
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, a key scholar in the sociology of sport in Taiwan, Tien-Chin Tan, considers the field's concerns with globalisation and how they transact with and inform the study of sport policy. In considering the trajectories of what seem to be two distinct areas of inquiry, Tan notes that much common ground exists between the sociology of sport and sport policy studies in areas such as those focused on global sport organisations, sport megaevents, athlete migration, sport for development, right to play initiatives and exploitation of child labour. Because sociologists of sport and researchers on sport policy often view sport from distinct theoretical lenses and wield different methodological tactics, a key challenge will be for researchers in each area to abandon their insistence on exclusivity and on the superiority of their respective approaches. In the future, researchers from each camp should work to learn from each other and advance cross-disciplinary cooperation that can contribute greatly to the acquisition of a more comprehensive and insightful understanding of sport, globalisation and the role of nation states and nations in relation to different socio-political contexts. The essay closes by illustrating how such a merger of approaches has advanced understanding about the relationship of social scientific work with changes in sport policy in the People's Republic of China.
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