Rethinking Globalizations
About the Book Series
This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalisation and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalisation, this series seeks to capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities for the future.
Global Economy Contested: Power and Conflict across the International Division of Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Taylor
May 08, 2008
Although much has been written on the topic of economic globalization, few volumes examine the social foundations of the global economy in a way that puts power and contestation at the forefront of the analysis. This book addresses this gap by emphasizing the contested social processes that ...
Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change
1st Edition
Edited
By George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, William Thompson
December 20, 2007
The term globalization has gained widespread popularity; yet most treatments are either descriptive and/or focused on changes in economic interconnectivity. In this volume the concept is seen in broader terms as leading international experts from a range of disciplines develop a long-term analysis ...
The Globalization of Environmental Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Oosthoek, Barry K. Gills
December 24, 2007
Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community. The ...
Global Activism
1st Edition
By Ruth Reitan
July 27, 2007
This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the...
Globalization and Contestation: The New Great Counter-Movement
1st Edition
By Ronaldo Munck
December 07, 2006
Globalization is undoubtedly the great overarching paradigm of our era. However, there is still little agreement on what globalization actually ‘is’ and some do not accept that it ‘is’ anything at all. This new book addresses the contestation of globalization by the anti- or counter-globalization ...
Rethinking Civilization: Resolving Conflict in the Human Family
1st Edition
By Majid Tehranian
December 14, 2006
Rethinking Civilization offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age. Majid Tehranian analyses the transition from nomadic, to agrarian, commercial, industrial, and digital civilizations and argues that the growing gaps among the five major civilizations have led to terror ...
Globalization and Global History
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry K. Gills, William Thompson
February 09, 2006
Globalization and Global History argues that globalization is not an exotic and new phenomenon. Instead it emphasizes that globalization is something that has been with us as long as there have been people who are both interdependent and aware of that fact. Studying globalization from the vantage ...
Whither Globalization?: The Vortex of Knowledge and Ideology
1st Edition
By James H. Mittelman
October 21, 2004
Globalization is usually said to be about markets, power, and culture. This innovative book goes further, arguing that globalization may also be understood as a way of knowing and representing the world. Mittelman debunks several prevalent myths about globalization and 'anti-globalization', ...