9780719078446; 9780719078446; Copyright; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Theory and agents; 1 Hegemonic discourse communication; 2 Greece and Ireland as social agents in the 1990s; Part II Institutional reproduction and social transformation: the hegemonic discourse of globalisation in action(1995-2001); 3 Globalisation discourse in Greece; 4 Globalisation discourse in Ireland; Part III Conclusions; 5 Facets of globalisation discourse; 6 Explaining facets of the hegemonic:political economy, domestic institutions and beyond
Summary
How can we study globalisation in a way that transcends the material/ideational rift? How has globalisation resonated and/or dominated in different national contexts? What role has been played by national political economies and domestic institutions in this process?*Producing globalisation* attempts to scrutinise the nature of the interplay between globalisation and national institutional settings. Rather than taking globalisation as a given, this book explores how concrete political actors produced the phenomenon of globalisation. Such an approach aims to bring human agency and its importanc
