ISBN:
9780415718813
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (661 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Series Statement:
Routledge International Handbooks
Series Statement:
Routledge International Handbooks Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies : Second edition
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Globalization ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- PART I Theories and definitions -- 1 Theories of globalization: issues and origins -- 2 Limiting theory: rethinking approaches to cultures of globalization -- 3 Economic theories of globalization -- 4 Global inequality -- 5 Internet and globalization -- 6 Anti-globalization movements: from critiques to alternatives -- 7 History and hegemony: the United States and twenty-first century globalization -- 8 Vulnerability and globalization: the social impact of globalization -- PART II Substantive issues -- 9 Transformations of the world's population: the demographic revolution -- 10 All that is molten freezes again: migration history, globalization, and the politics of newness -- 11 Climate change, globalization, and carbonization -- 12 Infectious disease and globalization -- 13 Globalization and taxation -- 14 Religion out of place? The globalization of fundamentalism -- 15 Globalization and Indigenous peoples: new old patterns -- 16 Genocide in the global age -- 17 Global elites -- 18 Globalized higher education -- 19 The global drive to commodify pensions -- PART III New institutions and cultures -- 20 Popular culture, fans, and globalization -- 21 Islam and globalization: Islamophobia, security and terrorism -- 22 Global cities -- 23 Crossing divides: consumption and globalization in history -- 24 Pluralism, globalization and the "modernization" of gender and sexual relations in Asia -- 25 Globalization and food: the dialectics of globality and locality -- 26 Borders, passports, and the global mobility -- 27 Globalization and Americanization -- PART IV Critical solutions -- 28 Globalization and labour: putting the ILO in its places -- 29 The globalization of human rights -- 30 Global civil society and the World Social Forum.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; PART I Theories and definitions; 1 Theories of globalization: issues and origins; 2 Limiting theory: rethinking approaches to cultures of globalization; 3 Economic theories of globalization; 4 Global inequality; 5 Internet and globalization; 6 Anti-globalization movements: from critiques to alternatives; 7 History and hegemony: the United States and twenty-first century globalization; 8 Vulnerability and globalization: the social impact of globalization; PART II Substantive issues
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Transformations of the world's population: the demographic revolution10 All that is molten freezes again: migration history, globalization, and the politics of newness; 11 Climate change, globalization, and carbonization; 12 Infectious disease and globalization; 13 Globalization and taxation; 14 Religion out of place? The globalization of fundamentalism; 15 Globalization and Indigenous peoples: new old patterns; 16 Genocide in the global age; 17 Global elites; 18 Globalized higher education; 19 The global drive to commodify pensions; PART III New institutions and cultures
Description / Table of Contents:
20 Popular culture, fans, and globalization21 Islam and globalization: Islamophobia, security and terrorism; 22 Global cities; 23 Crossing divides: consumption and globalization in history; 24 Pluralism, globalization and the "modernization" of gender and sexual relations in Asia; 25 Globalization and food: the dialectics of globality and locality; 26 Borders, passports, and the global mobility; 27 Globalization and Americanization; PART IV Critical solutions; 28 Globalization and labour: putting the ILO in its places; 29 The globalization of human rights
Description / Table of Contents:
30 Global civil society and the World Social Forum31 New cosmopolitanism in the social sciences; 32 Globalization and its possible futures; Index
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