Globalization

Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India.

Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples' Global Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti-corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona, Genoa, and Cancun.

For nearly two decades, Jody Berland has been a leading voice in cultural studies and the field of communications.

Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A.

Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world.

Minor Transnationalism moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies.

In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture.

By examining how neoliberal economic reform policies have affected educated young adults in contemporary Morocco, Searching for a Different Future posits a new socioeconomic formation: the global middle class.

Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokemon swept the globe in the late 1990s.

In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business.

A Thai foodseller on the streets of Bangkok, a cyclo driver in a Vietnamese village, a Pahari migrant laborer in the Himalayas, a Parsi-Christian professional social worker shuttling back and forth between London and Calcutta-Trans-Status Subjects examines how these and other South and Southeast Asians affect and are affected by globalization.

Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western-particularly American-popular culture.

Three Faces of Beauty offers a unique approach to understanding globalization and cultural change based on a comparative, ethnographic study of a nearly universal institution: the beauty salon.

Edited by one of the most prominent scholars in the field and including a distinguished group of contributors, this collection of essays makes a striking intervention in the increasingly heated debates surrounding the cultural dimensions of globalization.

For the majority of cultures around the world, religion permeates and informs everyday rituals of survival and hope.

A leading figure in cultural studies worldwide, Nestor Garcia Canclini is a Latin American thinker who has consistently sought to understand the impact of globalization on the relations between Latin America, Europe, and the United States, and among Latin American countries.

In Advertising Diversity Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements, marketing, and public relations.

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized.

United States-Latin American Relations, 1850-1903 is a collection of essays that provide an in-depth analysis of the developing relationship between the Americas during the critical period from the Mexican War to the Panama Canal treaty of 1903.

Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics.

Over the last quarter century, governments around the world have launched ambitious efforts to reform how they manage their programs.

The world's governing structures are higgledy-piggledy: disorderly, heads and tails in any or every direction.

A Brookings Institution Press and Visions of Governance for the 21st Century publicationFar from being another short-lived buzzword, "e;globalization"e; refers to real changes.

"e;From cooperation to a new cold war: is this the future for today's two great powers?

A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publicationA few years ago, Americans held out their systems of corporate governance and financial disclosure as models to be emulated by the rest of the world.

Brazils soft power path to major power status.

A Brookings Institution Press and Asian Development Bank publicationIn this collaboration between the Brookings Institution and the Asian Development Bank Institute, eminent international economists examine the increased influence of Asian nations in the governance of global economic affairs, from the changing role of the G-20 to the reform of multilateral organizations such as the International Monetary Fund.

Each year, governments spend billions of dollars on peacekeeping efforts around the world, and much more is spent on humanitarian aid to refugees and other victims of armed struggle.

A compelling look at the ways in which youth, gender and gender identities are being transformed around the globe.

»Die poetische Kraft der Theorie« bezieht sich für Alexander Kluge weniger auf reine »Philosophie« oder die abgesonderte »Lust am Denken« als vielmehr auf die altgriechische Praxis der »Theoria«.

Dieser Band behandelt das urbane Imaginäre in Sprache, Literatur und Film.

The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization.

The prevailing Western paradigm is modernity: a model focused on individual liberty, secularism, and the scientific control of nature.

The roots of American globalization can be found in the War of 1898.

The roots of American globalization can be found in the War of 1898.

It is commonly agreed that we live in an age of globalization, but the profound consequences of this development are rarely understood.

It is commonly agreed that we live in an age of globalization, but the profound consequences of this development are rarely understood.

Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world.

Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world.

In the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its zone of influence, few insurgent groups had the resources necessary to confront regular armies.

An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it-and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology.

The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina, poultry plant sets the stage for this dramatic story of human struggle in an age of globalization.

Though the scientific community largely agrees that climate change is underway, debates about this issue remain fiercely polarized.

This book addresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses.

Chinese Labor in a Korean Factorydraws on fieldwork in a multinational corporation (MNC) in Qingdao, China, and delves deep into the power dynamics at play between Korean management, Chinese migrant workers, local-level Chinese government officials, and Chinese local gangs.

What do Mexico's Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture, and al-Qaeda all have in common?

This new book takes as its focus a simple yet critical question: Does foreign direct investment lead to weakened environmental regulation, thereby turning developing countries into "e;pollution havens"e;?

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact.

This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses.