Global Flows and the Politics of Circulation
Benjamin Lee and Edward LiPuma
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There is a rising tide of discontent about the implicatiosn of globalization, a disturbance audible to anyone willing to listen. Among even the most moderate moderates in places such as China, India, Russia, Indonesia, Brazil, and southern Africa there is a growing, gnawing, and amorphous feeling of unease that there is something out there, something happening that is robbing people of a genuine semblance of control over their own destinies. They can see and feel the gyrations of their national currencies, the uncontrollable oscillations in the prices of commodities and capital, and the apparent powerlessness of their governments to influence the course of economic life - or even to understand the jet stream of circulatory forces unleashed by globalizing processes.