Klinger Contributes Chapter to Beyond Neoliberalism
Julie Klinger, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, contributed a chapter on the uneasy relationship between China and “Globalization in post-Cold War scholarship to the recently published collection “Beyond Neoliberalism: Social Analysis after 1989.”
The collection of fourteen chapters includes contributions from authors around the world, including prominent scholars such as Saskia Sassen, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Nancy Fraser.
In her chapter, Klinger compares the evolution of “China” and “Globalization” studies in United States and Chinese social science research in the post-Cold War era.
Klinger argues that the two terms carry very different meanings in Chinese and Western scholarship, due in no small part to the different ideological approaches to the question of “globalization” unfolding on either side of the 20th century East/West divide. In the first two decades after the Cold War, both Chinese and Western social science struggled to reconcile “globalization” (often meaning “westernization”) with “China’s Rise.” Klinger’s chapter examines the historical roots of this uneasy relationship, and identifies promising pathways for global and comparative social science inquiry.
Julie Klinger specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. She is currently completing a book project on the global geography of rare earth prospecting and mining, with a special emphasis on the development and geopolitics of resource frontiers in Brazil, China, and Outer Space.