Local Reactions to Globalization Processes Competitive Adaptation or Socioeconomic Erosion

Contents: Introduction: Facing globalisation from the local; From westernisation to the whirl of globality: conceptualising globalisation and its effects on local societies; Social consequences of the globalisation process in Argentina. Analysis of the specific situation in the Gran Buenos Aires; Global-Local Relations, Economic Reformation and Instabilities in Brazil: The Case of Porto Alegre; The impact of global economic integration on the countryside. Reflections on the Portuguese experience; The process of globalisation in an Andalusian town: Study of 'El Ejido'; A case of anti-globalisation social local movement: the olive oil sector reform; Tendencies towards urban disenchantment and coming back to localisms and ruralities in Spain; Trends of the new Role of the local: disjunctures and contradictions in the global network; The structure of opportunities to new localism and 'glocalisation': Meso-level Political and Cultural factors; A systemic approach to the present social structures: From autarchy to glocalisation; Index.Entrena, Francisco is the author of 'Local Reactions to Globalization Processes Competitive Adaptation or Socioeconomic Erosion' with ISBN 9781590335659 and ISBN 1590335651.