Globalization

What happens when economies 'heat up'?

What happens when economies 'heat up'?

In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal.

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics.

In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal.

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics.

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology.

What is yoga?

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology.

What is yoga?

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

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

This book draws on the thought of Baudrillard to explore the effects of globalisation and tourism in a Thai context.

This book draws on the thought of Baudrillard to explore the effects of globalisation and tourism in a Thai context.

*Winner, 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education**Winner, 2021 Book Award from the Globalization and Education SIG, Comparative and International Education Society*Examining Teach For All brings together research focused on Teach For All and its affiliate programmes to explore the organisation's impact on education around the world.

*Winner, 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education**Winner, 2021 Book Award from the Globalization and Education SIG, Comparative and International Education Society*Examining Teach For All brings together research focused on Teach For All and its affiliate programmes to explore the organisation's impact on education around the world.

The contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements.

The contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements.

This book explains the development of the international system's present-day balance of power by exploring three central questions: (1) Under what conditions has the international system order evolved from a unipolar system to the current multipolar system?

This book explains the development of the international system's present-day balance of power by exploring three central questions: (1) Under what conditions has the international system order evolved from a unipolar system to the current multipolar system?

This book proposes a radical shift in the way the world thinks about itself by highlighting the significance of Cross-Cultural Conversations.

This book proposes a radical shift in the way the world thinks about itself by highlighting the significance of Cross-Cultural Conversations.

Documenting the outcomes from three decades of transnational research conducted under the leadership of Antonio Teodoro, this volume offers a robust scaffolding of the social and political context in which global education is being challenged by the contradictions of neoliberalism, globalization, deregulation, governance, and democracy.

Documenting the outcomes from three decades of transnational research conducted under the leadership of Antonio Teodoro, this volume offers a robust scaffolding of the social and political context in which global education is being challenged by the contradictions of neoliberalism, globalization, deregulation, governance, and democracy.

This book critically reflects on the international function of the Bologna Process by exploring motivations and interests behind its 'global strategy' as well as how the reforms have been perceived and applied beyond Europe.

This book critically reflects on the international function of the Bologna Process by exploring motivations and interests behind its 'global strategy' as well as how the reforms have been perceived and applied beyond Europe.

The emergence of religious fundamentalism in a globalized, post-colonial world poses a significant challenge to the "e;End of History"e; narratives common in academic and non-academic literature alike.

Considering the context of the present ecological and social crisis, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the relationship between globalism and localization.

Considering the context of the present ecological and social crisis, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the relationship between globalism and localization.

Why has nationalism come roaring back?

The surprising and sometimes scandalous story of twenty-first-century citizenshipThe buying and selling of citizenship has become a thriving business in just a few years.

Almost unknown to the rest of the globe, Xiaomi has become the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer.

No word has evoked as much passion in recent times as the word “globalization,” which carries an array of meanings among different people and disciplines.

As the worlds billionaire class reaps record profits and global inequalities further divide nations and communities, this anthology compiled by renown activist Dr.

Information technology (IT) was key to the superior overall macroeconomic performance of the United States in the 1990s-high productivity, high growth, low inflation, and low unemployment.

Globalization reigns supreme as a description of recent economic transformation-and it carries many meanings.

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A new era of globalization, which began in the 1980s, brought about a significant decline in costs of transportation, communication, and production; considerably improved intercountry competitiveness; and broke down trade and cultural barriers among countries.

Globalization is exposing social fissures between those with the education, skills, and mobility to flourish in an unfettered world market-the apparent "e;winners"e;-and those without.

Antiglobalist forces have been gaining greater momentum in recent years in their efforts to reverse what they view as the negative effects of an integrating global economy.

The global financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 has blasted livelihoods, inspired protests, and toppled governments.

In 2006, a team led by the English economist Sir Nicholas Stern issued a striking report that analyzed the economic dimensions of global climate change and called for immediate collective action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Richly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.

The countries of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEM) and those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are crucial to the development of the world economy.

Saudi Arabia is generally and justifiably viewed as a country with the fewest democratic institutions and the weakest traditions of pluralism in the world.

Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact.

Saudi Arabia is generally and justifiably viewed as a country with some of the fewest democratic institutions and the weakest traditions of pluralism.

The history of the 20th century was dominated by the state - nationalism, national economies, national wars.

Globalization is often perceived in rather simplistic terms: as a single universal process leading ultimately to global equality and global democracy.

How does the process of globalisation relate to the increase of migratory flows from less developed countries to western ones?