The Global Industrial Complex : Systems of Domination

Best, Steven (EDT)/ Kahn, Richard (EDT)/ Nocella, Anthony J. (EDT)

Lexington Books（2011/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 344 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780739136980
• DDC分類 306.342

Full Description

The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of corporate-state structures of hegemonic power—what the editors refer to as "the power complex"—that was first analyzed by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite. In this new volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the transnational institutional relationships of the power complex combine the logics of capitalist exploitation and profits and industrialist norms of efficiency, control, and mass production, While some have begun to analyze these institutional complexes as separate entities, this book is unique in analyzing them as overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate globally and which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the 21st century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complex—a grand power complex of complexes—thus poses one of the most formidable challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy, freedom and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of opposition to it until it is more popularly named and understood. The Global Industrial Complex aims to be a foundational contribution to this emerging educational and political project.

Contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours
Chapter Two: The Corporate War Economy
Chapter Three: The Security Industrial Complex
Chapter Four: The Media-Military Industrial Complex
Chapter Five: The Criminal (Justice) Industrial Complex
Chaper Six: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: The Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Chapter Seven: Higher Education's Industrial Model
Chapter Eight: The Agricultural Industrial Complex
Chapter Nine: Origins and Consequences of the Animal Industrial Complex
Chapter Ten: Bad For Your Health: The U.S. Medical Industrial Complex Goes Global
Chapter Eleven: College Sports: It's All About the Money!
Chapter Twelve: Driving to Carmageddon: Capitalism, Transportation, and the Logic of Planetary Crisis
Afterword