Globalization

In this much-needed book, Graham Dunkley challenges the oft-repeated notion that free trade and global integration are the best means of development for all nations at all times an idea that has proved even more misguided in the wake of the global financial crisis.

In 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease.

The profound changes to the world economy since the late twentieth century have been characterised by a growth in the number and size of transnational corporations.

As globalisation gains momentum, international migration continues to divide opinion and polarise policy makers, politicians, and advocates.

Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who cross the borders of design and artistic practices to investigate how we perceive the city; how we imagine it; how we experience it; and how we might better design it.

Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who cross the borders of design and artistic practices to investigate how we perceive the city; how we imagine it; how we experience it; and how we might better design it.

We live in a society that defines us by what we consume and how.

We live in a society that defines us by what we consume and how.

For the past thirty years or more, the global economy has been run based on three big assumptions: globalisation will continue to increase; trade is the route to growth and development; and economic power is moving from West to East.

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region.

Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.

The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism.

Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century.

Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls.

To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "e;land leasing.

In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement.

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets.

A compelling analysis of how global finance is devouring the food system and gambling with our future in the process.

Proposed Constitution for the new World State, the United Federation of the World.

The book examines the effects of education in creating global citizens who share a world culture.

Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world.

Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world.

The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism.

The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism.

Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism.

Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism.

There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004.

There is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was published in 2004.

No-Nonsense Guide to World Population (1/2 page) With world population passing seven billion and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, we are in the grip of a number panic.

Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination.

Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad.

A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists.

Globalization has shrunk the world in the name of free trade and broken down many of the boundaries between peoples.

In the new edition of this bestselling text and scholarly reference, new and revised chapters reflect shifts in the gendered, classed, racialized and sexualized nature of ongoing global restructurings.

Ecumenical & Interreligious Perspectives: Globalization in Theological Education is a collection of articles on the wide-ranging effects of ecumenism on theological education.

This publication empirically evaluates and develops core aspects of the literature on global governance.

The European social model "e;does not have to be abandoned but it must be adapted to meet the challenges of the 21st century (former British Work and Pensions Secretary David Blunkett).

Global inequality and unfettered globalization are characterizing features of the world economy at the beginning of the millennium.

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.

In an age of uncertainty and change, it is the task of social science at least to present solid evidence that allows a beam of light into the darkness.

At a time of the profound crisis of the world capitalist system, a group of social scientists and theologians takes up anew the issue of liberation theology.

Ein revolutionärer wie zukunftsweisender Ansatz im Klima- und ArtenschutzDie Welt steht kurz vor dem ökologischen Kollaps und uns bleibt kaum noch Zeit die Richtung zu ändern.

Transition from traditional marketing to digital marketing and master a comprehensive range of topics within this field.

International Political Economy and the Global South provides students from both the Global South and the Global North a textbook that speaks to distinct concepts, categories and issues of International Political Economy (IPE) from a Southern and Northern perspective, while identifying how they differ.

Speaking Out of Place helps us find value and inspiration in others who have made change in the world where such things were not supposed to be possible.

Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana.

In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and even enhance the features of a dog-eatdog society to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and police violence/

Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy.