Review: Canada: Street Protests and Fantasy Parks
| Published date | 01 March 2003 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200305800116 |
| Author | Walter C. Soderlund |
| Date | 01 March 2003 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
Mito's
contribution
to
the
comparative
research
on
the
policy-mak-
ing
process
in
Canada
and
Japan
are
enormous
and
deserve
much
cred-
it.
He
has
read
widely
in
both
English
and
Japanese
about
the disputes
he
examined
and
tried
to
make
the
work
both
theoretically
rich
and
descriptively
interesting.
Still,
there
are
a
few
problems
with
the
book.
Perhaps because
it
started
life
as
a
PhD
dissertation,
one
needs
considerable
expertise
to
grasp
Mito's
message.
Readings
of
Krasner
and
Katzenstein
would
cer-
tainly
help to
understand
the main arguments,
and
some knowledge
of
comparative
politics/international
political
economy
would
be
a
pre-
requisite.
It
is
also
a
pity
that
his
case
studies end
in
1980
when
so
much
of
interest
has
occurred
since
then.
Despite
these
small
short-
comings,
this
book
deserves
to
be
read
by
anyone
interested
in
Japanese
and Canadian
political/economic
affairs.
Daizo
Sakurada/Kwansei
Gakuin
University
STREET
PROTESTS
AND
FANTASY PARKS
Globalization, culture,
and
the
state
Edited
by
David
R.
Cameron and
Janice
Gross
Stein
Vancouver:
University
of
British
Columbia
Press,
2002,
vii,
18 4
pp,
$85.00
cloth
(ISBN
0-7748-0880-2),
$24.95
paper
(ISBN
0-7748-
0881-0)
The
book
presents
an
interesting
analysis
of
the
impact
of
globalization
on
Canadian
society
and
culture,
as
well
as
an assessment
of
the
ability
of
the
state
to
deal
with
the
consequences
of
a
world
characterized
by
expanded
trade
and
capital
flows,
compounded
by
increasingly
deep
integration.
The
book
emerges
from
the
'Trends Project,'
funded
by
the
federal
government's
Policy Research
Secretariat
and
the
Social
Sciences
and Humanities
Research
Council,
and
focuses
specifically
on the
less
studied
cultural
and
social
aspects
of
globalization,
although
economic dimensions
tend
to
get
intertwined.
The
editors
have
pro-
vided
an
introduction
and
conclusion,
and
there
are
four
case
studies:
the
global
entertainment
economy,
by
John
Hannigan;
the
changing
nature
of
identity
and
citizenship
by
Lloyd
Wong;
the
tactics
used
by
the
anti-MAI
(Multilateral
Agreement
on
Investments)
lobby,
by
Ronald Deibert;
and communication
policy,
by
Marc Raboy.
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Winter2002-2003
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