Globalization

In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species.

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements.

Bis zum Herbst 2016 waren CETA, TTIP und Co in aller Munde.

Untapped collects twelve previously unpublished essays that analyze the rise of craft beer from social and cultural perspectives.

The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.

This book explores the concept of intercultural competence, focusing specifically on education.

This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs.

Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance analyses how global financialized capitalism operates and reproduces itself, exploring the remarkable ability of the financial sector to maintain its dominance through even the most severe economic crises.

Although its beginnings can be traced back to the late 19th century, the interfaith movement has only recently begun to attract mainstream attention, with governments, religious leaders and grassroots activists around the world increasingly turning to interfaith dialogue and collective action to address the challenges posed and explore the opportunities presented by religious diversity in a globalising world.

Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises.

This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest.

Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon.

This edited collection brings together leading and emerging international scholars who explore citizenship through the two overarching themes of Indigeneity and ethnicity.

This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields.

With different pedagogic practices come different ways of examining them and fresh understandings of their implications and assumptions.

The conventional view of globalization sees it as a process driven by giant firms from the Triad regions of North America, Europe, and Japan, shaping the world in their own image.

This book aims at deconstructing and problematizing linguistic ideologies related to Portuguese in late modernity and questioning the theoretical presuppositions which have led us to call Portuguese 'a language.

This book is a rarity in that it opens a genuinely creative new vista for understanding global politics as distinguished from international politics, enhancing the vision for understanding global subjects such as multilateral treaties and the Covid-19 virus.

The term 'globalization' generally refers to the homogenization of cultures across the world due to Western encroachment.

Following its initial publication in 1997, Global Diasporas: An Introduction was central to the emergence of diaspora studies and quickly established itself as the leading textbook in the field.

This book analyzes the shifting global economic architecture, indicating the decentralizing authority in global economic governance since the Cold War and, especially, following the 2008-09 global financial crisis.

This book analyzes Russian and Chinese revisionism in the face of US and Western post-Cold War liberal international order building and asks why both powers have turned revisionist in the late 2000s.

In today's world, students need to know that there is more to politics than just politics.

The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades.

This volume explores theories and practices of decolonizing education, drawing on international perspectives from scholars across the globe to engage new knowledges and build solidarities across different spaces.

Cases of famine, governmental overreach, political abuse and neglect persist even in today's globalised world.

Globalization: The Paradox of Organizational Behavior is an excellent resource for undergraduate and graduate students, professors, policy makers, and the intelligentsia worldwide.

This book explores software's pivotal role as the code that powers computers, mobile devices, the Internet, and social media.

Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines.

This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality.

This pioneering volume is devoted to the analysis of education from the perspective of political science, applying the full range of the discipline's analytical perspectives and methodological tools.

The book encapsulates discussions under the rubric of ''frontiers'' in multiple contexts.

Land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, given its historical precedents in the eras of imperialism.

Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level.

Sandwiched between the US - the sole superpower at the turn of the millennium - and China as the expected next superpower, Europe is rarely discussed as a potential dealer of the 21st century.

This important book discusses the political economy of world order and the basic ideological and ontological grounds upon which the emergent global order is based.

Globalization and Global History argues that globalization is not an exotic and new phenomenon.

Der Übergang vom Industrie‐ ins Digitalzeitalter verändert nicht nur die Arbeitsteilung zwischen Mensch und Maschine, sondern begründet auch den Übergang zu einer neuen Epoche der globalen Ökonomie.

This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread worldwide.

From The Artist to The White Ribbon, from Oscar to Palme d'Or-winning productions, European filmmaking is more prominent, world-wide, than ever before.

Presenting original work and new thinking on a wide range of important issues, the book explores the current state of globalization, competition and growth in China.

American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application.

From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism.

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation.

Renowned author Ulrike Schuerkens presents an in-depth exploration of social transformations and developments.

This book explores the connections between the processes of social structuring and sensibilities in contemporary cities.