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What Do We Owe Each Other? includes essays by some of the finest social and political policy researchers in the United States. They address critical issues in contemporary American society. These range from the making of public opinion, the nature of the presumed social contract between government and its people, the special place of corporate governance and institutional investors with respect to social stability, the search for educational equality in a world of growing income disparities, the huge run up in prison populations and the decline of American citizenship, and not least, the ethic

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conducting Global Social Research -- I. What Is Globalization? -- 3. Global Social Change in the Long Run -- 4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization -- 5. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective -- II. Global Inequality -- 6. Global Inequality: An Introduction -- 7. Global Energy Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term Implications -- III. Globalization and the Environment -- 8. Ecosystems and World-Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process -- 9. Global Social Change, Natural Resource Consumption, and Environmental Degradation -- IV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance -- 10. Spatial and Other "Fixes" of Historical Capitalism -- 11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems Theory -- V. Global Social Movements -- 12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women's Mobilization -- 13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement -- 14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil Society -- VI. Democracy and Democratization -- 15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy -- 16. Globalization and the Future of Democracy -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTNU in Norway and UCLA in California.Differently situated in global political economies, both are ambitious, prosperous campuses. The book refl exively examines their disturbing disputes about quality, competition, and innovation. It argues that some academic, bureaucratic, and corporate university governance practices are both unsustainable and undermining what some university students and faculty already do well: circulate interdisciplinary knowledge and its making globally across the diasporic domains of academia, society, industry, and government while addressing the world's immediate challenges: power, inequities, and sustainability.It shows the important, strategic work of domesticating, co- morphing, and meshworking at the faultlines of emerging knowledge. This book is for students, faculty, society members, and policy makers who want to engage more effectively with contemporary universities that increasingly serve as busy crossroads for sharing ideas and how to make them. It will be of interest to workers and scholars in the interdisciplinary fi elds of higher education studies, critical university studies, and critical public infrastructure studies, plus science, technology, and society studies.