GLOBALIZATION AND THE HUMAN FACTOR
Globalization and the Human Factor
Critical Insights
Edited by
E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh
Joseph Mensah
Senyo B.-S.K. Adjibolosoo
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Contents
Introduction
The Globalization-Development
Debate: The Need for a Paradigm Shift
E.Osei Kwadwo Prempeh, Joseph Mensah and Senyo B.-S.K. Adjibolosoo
E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh
Senyo B.-S.K. Adjibolosoo
Joseph Mensah
Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa
Francis Adu-Febiri
Korbla P. Puplampu
Wisdom J. Tettey
Randy Moore
E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh
E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh
Guide
Senyo B.-S.K. Adjibolosoo is full Professor of Economics at Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California, USA. He is the founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Human Factor Development (IIHFD) and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Review of Human Factor Studies (RHFS), which is the journal of the IIHFD. His publications include numerous journal articles, books, book chapters and book reviews.
Francis Adu-Febiri is the Chair of the Social Sciences Department, Camosun College, Canada, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He has presented and published extensively on tourism, human factor development, globalization, diversity, racialization, ethnicity and Canadian First Nations. He is the President of the Canadian Chapter of the International Institute for Human Factor Development (IIHFD).
Joseph Mensah is an Assistant Professor of Human Geography at the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has written several journal articles and contributed to chapters to a number of books. He is the author of Black Canadians: History, Experience and Social Conditions.
Randy Moore is a Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota. His most recent book is Evolution in the Courtroom: A Reference Guide.
Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Zimbabwe. His publications in journals and book chapters cover areas of culture and theory, the human factor in development and social policy, family and gender studies.
E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh is an Associate Professor of Political Science; and Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on the human factor, globalization and the politics of resistance to globalization.
Korbla P. Puplampu teaches at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has published articles in academic journals such as African Studies Review, Review of African Political Economy, Canadian Journal of Development Studies and Review of Human Factor Studies. He edited with Wisdom J. Tettey and Bruce J. Berman, Critical Perspectives on Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana.
Wisdom J. Tettey is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. Canada. He co-edited (with Bruce J. Berman and Korbla P. Puplampu) Critical Perspectives on Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana. He has also written on globalization, information technology and the diasporization of civil society in various edited volumes and journals.
The Editors wish to acknowledge debts of gratitude to several people who made this book possible with dedication and a sense of purpose. The reviewers and staff at Ashgate Publishing, especially Kirstin Howgate and Donna Hamer, provided invaluable support and encouragement at all stages. Diane Dodds at the Department of Political Science, Carleton University, did a remarkable job editing and producing the final camera-ready copy. We are extremely grateful to all of them.
Some of the chapters in this book are based on previously published articles. We are grateful to the International Institute for Human Factor Development (IIHFD) for permission to draw on these articles which they hold under copyright and which first appeared in the special issue of the Review of Human Factor Studies on Globalization and the Human Factor, Volume 8, Number 1, June 2002.
E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh dedicates this book to his late mother and brother Obaapanin Kaakyire Amma Boakyewaa and 'Godfather' Osei Kwadwo Anane-Binfoh respectively; his spouse Anna Nsiah-Sarkodie and their four children Eva, Greg, Stephanie and Christopher. He also gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Deans of the Faculty of Public Affairs and Management and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University and the funds made possible by a Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award for 2001.
Joseph Mensah dedicates this book to his parents, Mr. M.Y. Mensah and Madam Gladys Gyan in Techiman, Ghana; his wife Janet Ann Mensah and to the loving memory of his mother-in-law, Ms. Gwendolyn Thomas Jeffers.
Senyo .-S.. Adjibolosoo dedicates this book to Sabina Adjibolosoo.
E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh, Ottawa
Joseph Mensah, Toronto
Senyo B.-S.K.Adjibolosoo, San Diego
Introduction
The Globalization-Development Debate: The Need for a Paradigm Shift
E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh , Joseph Mensah and Senyo B.-S.K. Adjibolosoo
Introduction
Since about the early 1980s, the world has experienced an unprecedented push towards economic, political, social, and cultural integration, which - in its totality or in various permutations - has come under the rubric of globalization. A resurgent neo-liberal economic and political agenda has been the driving force behind the globalizing trend, unleashing structural changes of profound complexity and magnitude worldwide. As a phenomenon with dramatic consequences, globalization has engendered extraordinary response that at once engages the attention of both advocates and critics alike. A good deal of the prevailing response revolves around the tensions and conflicts inherent in globalization, with much emphasis on political economy, but little attention, if any, to what the economist Senyo Adjibolosoo calls the human factor (HF) in development theorization, notwithstanding attempts to make globalization more human-centered.
