Recorded November 7, 2005
Below is the original description of the event.
Globalization is often seen as displacing the nation state from the center of progressive politics. While it is true that alliances between local and transnational social movements lie at the core of opposition to the current neoliberal global regime, nation states — particularly the major states of the global south — are also essential actors in the politics of “counter-hegemonic globalization.” This talk will use the case of Brazil to illustrate this proposition.
Peter Evans teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Chair of International Studies. He has worked for many years on the comparative political economy of development, focusing for most of those years on questions of industrial transformation, as discussed in his 1995 book Embedded Autonomy. This talk builds on his chapter on counter-hegemonic globalization in the 2005 edition of the Handbook of Political Sociology.