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The Blackwell companion to globalization

This Companion features 35 original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations.; The essays focus on key questions in the debate surrounding globalization: does globalization bring with it more or less inequality? How is power distributed globally? What role does technology play? What is the significance of the nation-state in contemporary globalization? The volume also explores the often overlooked underbelly of globalization, including coverage of international terrorism, sex trafficking, corruption, war, and environmental problems. "A Companion to Globalization" introduces the major players, theories, and methodologies, and explores the major areas affected by globalization including the environment, media and communication, and economic and social relationships
eBook, English, 2007
Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, 2007
1 online resource (xix, 731 pages) : illustrations
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Globalization in hard times : contention in the academy and beyond / Anthony McGrew
What is globalization? / Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White
The cultural construction of neoliberal globalization / Robert J. Antonio
Globalization : the major players / George M. Thomas
Globalization today / John Boli and Velina Petrova
Theories of globalization / William I. Robinson
Studying globalization : methodological issues / Salvatore Babones
Cosmopolitanism : a critical theory for the twenty-first century / Ulrich Beck
The end of globalization? : the implications of migration for state, society and economy / Subrahjit Guhathakurta, David Jacobson and Nicholas C. DelSordi
Globalization and the agrarian world / Philip McMichael
Globalization and the environment / Steve Yearley
Cities and globalization / Michael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma
The sociology of global organizations / Stewart Clegg and Chris Carter
Economic globalization : corporations / Peter Dicken
Outsourcing : globalization and beyond / George Ritzer and Craig Lair
Globalization and consumer culture / Douglas J. Goodman
Cultural globalization / John Tomlinson
Globalization and ideology / Manfred B. Steger
Media and globalization / Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce
Globalization and information and communications technologies : the case of war / Howard Tumber and Frank Webster
Political globalization / Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford
Globalisation and public policy / Tim Blackman
Religion and globalization / Peter Beyer
Globalization and higher education / Peter Manicas
Sport and globalization / David L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger
The fate of the local / Melissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr
Public health in a globalizing world : challenges and opportunities / Farnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach
Globalization and global inequalities : recent trends / Glenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling
World inequality in the twenty-first century : patterns and tendencies / Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran
Globalization and corruption / Carolyn Warner
Globalization and sexuality / Kathryn Farr
War in the era of economic globalization / Gerald Schneider
Globalization and international terrorism / Gus Martin
Resisting globalization / Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner
The futures of globalization / Bryan S. Turner
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010