Globalization

Spare Rib remains one of the most iconic symbols of Second Wave Feminism, its influence far out-living the span of its publication (1972-1993).

This book provides a timely and in-depth analysis of how two major trade powers, the United States of America (US) and the European Union (EU), contribute to a socio-political dimension of globalization.

This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement.

This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing.

Uniquely informed by a sociological perspective, this major new textbook introduces the underlying origins and consequences of international migration, placing individuals within a broader social, cultural and historical context.

This book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China's twenty-first century.

This project offers a critical overview of how online activities and platforms are becoming an important source for the production and promotion of women's films.

This ethnographic study explores how four alternative media projects in El Salvador integrated digital technologies-particularly social media-into their practices, and whether incorporating these technologies affected citizen participation not only in the media production process, but in a broader discursive sphere of civic and political life as well.

This book opens up a unique intellectual space where eleven female scholar-activists explore alternative forms of theorising social reality.

This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora.

This publication provides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "e;hot topics"e; in the field of antitrust and unfair competition law with regard to a number of key countries.

This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication.

This book analyses the role of the African Union and regional economic communities in contributing to peacebuilding in Africa.

This book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture, using examples from film, literature and photography.

This book is a cultural critique of labor and globalization that considers whether one can represent the other.

This book examines the institutions that are producing consumer law at the international level, the substantive issues enshrined in these laws, and the enforcement mechanisms meant to ensure effective protection.

This book examines the formation of identity of the Nagas in northeast India in light of the proselytizing efforts by the Americans and the colonization by the British in their search for control over areas inhabited by the Nagas which were perfect for tea plantations.

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.

In this book, distributional justice theories developed by John Rawls and Amartya Sen are applied to the governance of today's media, proposing a fresh,  and innovative assessment of the potential role for media in society.

This volume unpacks an intriguing challenge for the field of media research: combining media research with the study of complex networks.

This edited volume breaks new ground by innovatively drawing on multiple disciplines to enhance our understanding of international relations and conflict.

This empirically and theoretically grounded book provides insights into the ascendance of powers such as Turkey, South Korea and Indonesia and their relationship with Africa.

This book provides a timely and important summary of tabloid journalism in Africa, which clearly shows how tabloids in the African context play a unique role in the democratization process.

This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces.

This book examines why and how small powers link their security interests and trade agendas, and how security threats influence the facilitation and outcome of their trade activities.

This book critically examines the argument that the Global South has risen in recent years, that its rise has intensified since the 2008 financial crisis, and that this in turn has hastened the decline of the West and the US in particular.

This book discusses the geopolitics of development from the point of view of the Global South.

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security.

This book explores the potential educational technologies have for transforming education in the Middle East.

This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'.

This book investigates how human rights law can be applied to corporate entities.

1688 – die Welt am Vorabend der Globalisierung.

Pathos ist überall.

Eine junge Frau verfasst einen Tag, nachdem ihr Partner plötzlich verstirbt, einen Instagram-Post darüber.

This edited book examines the experience of small states in Europe during the 2015-2016 migration crisis.

This book provides an insightful analysis of the looming refugee and mixed migration crisis in the context of four major, contemporary flows: two in west and east Europe, and one each in the Americas and Asia.

This book analyzes e-participation in smart cities.

This book explores community dynamics within social media.

Seeking to extend the debate on the diversity of democracy, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of how two different global actors, the European Union and the World Social Forum respond to the challenges of globalization with various models of democracy and modes of cooperation at the transnational level.

This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses.

This book discusses current theories and practices in the field of public procurement.

This book will take the reader through the past, the present, and into the future of the flagship institution of the international customs community: the World Customs Organization (WCO).

After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of international politics with a force.

Performing Media Activism in the Digital Age breaks new ground by conceptualizing activism as a performance extending beyond public space and the moment of public gatherings to consider the more extended view of social or political movements as mediated social connections.

This book argues the discursive construction of the EU in national newspapers is pivotal in creating an environment of Euroscepticism.

This book provides answers to fundamental questions of sustainable development and international cooperation in light of irreversible globalization.

In light of recent global trends and crises, including the hasty withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan and the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, this book sheds new light on global power shifts in multiple areas of international relations between industrialized countries and emerging powers.

At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective.

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

"Globalisierung und Recht - Beiträge Japans und Deutschlands zu einer internationalen Rechtsordnung im 21.