> funding from the Ford Foundation
> This conference is concerned with "globalization" as a dynamic, contested
> and often contingent process. Rather than concentrating upon the huge,=20
> apparently irresistible structures that have shaped our world in the last
> 500 years we will look rather at how different people and groups in
> specific situations and places have struggled to come to terms with, and
> often conduct resistance against, the developing global system.
Obviously not with the contestation of globalisation: the entire
programme assumes there is globalisation, and there is no indication in
the programme that anyone will be allowed to question this absolute
truth, as the organisers see it.
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