Globalization

This book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is democracy threatened by globalisation?

This is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes.

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

This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects.

This book explores the objectives pursued in donor programs, the methods used to advance them, and the underlying assumptions and strategies.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

Populism and Neoliberalism argues that the roots of populism lay in the contradiction between the democratic ideal, which implies that the people should decide, and neoliberal governance, which seeks to make markets and competition the arbiters of major social developments.

Globalization and money - two concepts inextricably linked.

Globalization of Water is a first-of-its-kind review of the critical relationship between globalization and sustainable water management.

The unprecedented shifts in the U.

Der Band versteht sich als ein soziologisch orientiertes Einführungs- und Lehrbuch zum Thema Trinkwasser, das bei zunehmender und facettenreicher werdender Relevanz sozial und sozialwissenschaftlich zunehmend fokussiert wird.

Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today.

As both an extra-terrestrial and a terrestrial migrant, the alien provides a critical framework to help us understand the interactions between cultures and to explore the transgressive force of travel over geographical, cultural or linguistic borders.

This is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade-union movement.

This book presents the core concepts of geographical education as a means of understanding global issues from a spatial perspective.

Rethinking Fashion Globalization is a timely call to rewrite the fashion system and push back against Eurocentric dominance within fashion histories by presenting new models, approaches and understandings of fashion from critical thinkers at the forefront of decolonial fashion discourse.

Does the 'city region' constitute a new departure in urbanisation?

This edited volume examines the role of the modern university as a public good institution ethically engaged in social transformation.

Marking a constructivist turn in Africa-China scholarship, this book explores African constructions of China.

Over many decades, "e;contagion"e; has been a metaphor of choice for everything from global terrorism, suicide bombings, poverty, immigration, global financial crises, human rights, fast food, obesity, divorce, and homosexuality.

The widespread move towards more market-driven models of political economy combined with the expanding internationalisation of business and commerce has led to a series of proposals for global competition rules.

Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy.

The volume delves into the intricate web of contemporary permacrisis rooted in the strategic imperatives of nation-states.

Contemporary life is founded on oil - a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental devastation.

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

In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures.

Hegemony has long been a key concept within the study of International Relations, as well as across the social sciences more generally, and a term used by analysts to make sense of contemporary events.

What can we say about the shape of things to come in world politics, the probability of different possibilities, and the reflexivity of our anticipations?

This book explores the activities of the local Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan.

This book examines the internet as a form of power in global politics.

Like a giant oil tanker, the world is slowly turning.

International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day.

In this unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi provides a provocative account of Iran in its current resurrection as a mighty regional power.

Throughout history and in every geographical location, the rise and fall of industry, which impact the fate of large populations, are tied to the development and cultural entanglement of particular models that are articulated with political power.

In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy.

This joint Austrian and Irish study is the outcome of empirical research on the development and decay tendencies of the capitalist world economy since the early 1980s and the role, that Europe will play in these constellations.

Critical Rationalism and Globalization addresses how the access to critical reason enables people to shape a new social order on a global scale.

The beginnings of globalisation are usually dated to the last third of the twentieth century, alongside the rise of supranational companies, the financial economy and the information technology revolution.

Exploring to what extent the BRICS group is a significant actor challenging the global order, this book focuses on the degree and consequence of their emergence and explores how important cooperation is to individual BRICS members' foreign policy strategies and potential relevance as leaders in regional and global governance.

This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization.

Dans l'environnement géo-sociolinguistique actuel, peut-on encore parler DU français, comme d'une entité uniforme, voire universelle ?

This book explores the connections between two of the most transformative processes of the twenty-first century, namely climate change and globalization.

Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts is a timely contribution to the project of theorizing "e;Europe"e; through decolonial perspectives on the Left, as the European and global crisis has prompted new reflections on what it means to sit still at the European "e;peripheries"e;.