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Critical Theories of Globalization : An Introduction Book by Chamsy el-Ojeili
This highly accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of globalization and its consequences. Exploring the insights of a wide range of critical theorists, this book argues that debates about globalization cannot be divorced from struggles for emancipation or from the contradictory realities of contemporary society.

Education, Globalization and Social Change  Book by Phillip Brown, Jo-Anne Dillabough, A. H. Halsey, Hugh Lauder (Editor)
This book is an invaluable collection of key readings, with particular reference to globalization, for anyone concerned with the study of education at a time of major economic and social change.

Globalization, Cultural Identities, And Media Representations (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies) Book by Natascha Gentz (Editor), Stefan Kramer (Editor)
Globalization, Cultural Identities, and Media Representations provides a multidirectional approach for understanding the role of media in constructing cultural identities in a newly globalized media environment.

Development Models, Globalization and Economies : A Search for the Holy Grail ?
Book by John B. Kidd, Frank-Jurgen Richter
Development Models, Globalization and Economies compares and critiques the different economic models available in today's global market place.

Globalization From Below : Transnational Activists And Protest Networks (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) Book by Donatella della Porta Della Porta, Massimillano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca, Herbert Reiter Reiter
When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved to be a critical moment in the global justice movement. Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global justice movement, Globalization from Below analyzes a movement from the viewpoints of the activists, organizers, and demonstrators themselves.

Discovering Nature : Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan Book by Robert P. Weller
Robert Weller's richly documented account describes the extraordinary transformations which have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century. The book focuses on nature tourism, anti-pollution movements, and policy implementation to show how the global spread of western ideas about nature has interacted with Chinese traditions.

China and Globalization: The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society (Globalizing Regions) Book by Doug Guthrie
China and Globalization is a compact, highly readable introductory text on contemporary China and the massive changes it is presently undergoing. It focuses primarily on how economic structural change is driving the processes, but discusses many other issues as well--politics, social change, reform, international economics, and cultural change.
Books in this series look at how nations and regions across the world are navigating the tumultuous currents of globalization. Ideal introductions to the peoples and places of our increasingly globalized world.

Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution Book by Pranab Bardhan (Editor), Samuel Bowles (Editor), Michael Wallerstein (Editor)
Joshua Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology : Each of the essays in this volume is a gem. Together, they present a compelling case for the proposition that a more egalitarian domestic policy in the advanced economies is essential to a morally decent form of globalization. While globalization, in the form of greater openness in international trade, offers new opportunities for the world's poor, it also threatens wages for less advantaged workers in the advanced economies.
The authors analyze the impact of globalization in a refreshingly nuanced fashion.
Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution demonstrates that the free flow of goods, capital, and labor has increased the inequality or volatility of labor earnings in advanced industrial societies--while constraining governments' ability to tax the winners from globalization to compensate workers for their loss.

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century Book by Jeffry A. Frieden
This is an excellent, readable history of globalization with important lessons for our society today. Mary Whaley - Copyright © American Library Association.
Globalization is a choice, not a fact. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Frieden's insightful history explores the golden age of globalization during the early years of the twentieth century, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, the divisions of the Cold War world, and the turn again toward global integration at the end of the century.

Cities in Transition : Globalization, Political Change and Urban Development (GeoJournal Library) Book by Rita Schneider-Sliwa (Editor)
This book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities are not subject to almost unconditional global forces. Rather, universal forces are decisive eventualities in the process of urban restructuring, often influencing its course and speed, yet developments and particularities within a city strongly influence the course of events and the extent to which negative characteristics of globalization might occur. Local forces are central in the process of change and they may influence the perceived unstoppable process of globalization, leading to considerable qualitative and quantitative differences in the urban development processes of the globalization era. It focuses on the interplay between local and global forces whose influence is strongly affected by the very different spatial and temporal local constellations and development factors which give globalization a local flavour.

Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization - Edited by Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos - Contemporary feminists face the labor of moving beyond the dominant paradigms of knowledge and communication that drive corporate globalization. Dialogues among women's movements bridge profound differences in historical, economic, and political circumstance, language, culture, and fundamental "cosmovision." Such differences are welcomed by contributors as practical resources, rather than as obstacles, in feminist challenges to corporate globalization. Dialogue and Difference is an essential collection for professors and students interested in globalization, development, gender studies, and activism.

International Migration : Globalization's Last Frontier (Global Issues) Book by Jonathon W. Moses
'This book stands out in the vast literature on globalization.It speaks with clarity and moral force on an aspect of globalization on which relatively little has been written. It is refreshingly provocative for the boldness of ideas, and provides a counter-point to the one -sided view that all we need in the name of globalization is freer trade and mobility of capital, but not the mobility of labour.' - Amit Bhaduri, Professor of Political Economy, University of Pavia, Italy

How "American" Is Globalization? Book by William H. Marling
Critics point to the uneven popularity of McDonalds as a prime example of globalization and supposed American hegemony in the world. But Marling shows, in a series of case studies, that local cultures are intrinsically resilient and that local languages, eating habits, land use, education systems, and other social patterns determine the extent to which American culture is imported and adapted to native needs. He argues that globalization can actually accentuate local cultures, which often put their own imprint on what they import.

Civil Society, Globalization and Political Change in Asia; Organizing Between Family and State Book by Robert Weller
In Civil Society, Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has brought together an international group of experts on the subject whose chapters address these questions through a series of extensive case studies from east and southeast Asia.

The New Geography of Global Income Inequality Book by Glenn Firebaugh
Choice - The surprising finding of this book is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, global income inequality is decreasing. Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations).

Connectivity in Antiquity: Globalization as a Long-Term Historical Process Book by Oystein S. LaBianca (Editor), Sandra Arnold Scham (Editor)
Two concepts that have great immediacy and have now become the current watchwords for the media as well as for academia, globalization and long-term historical processes, are brought together in this interdisci plinary volume of papers based upon Manuel Castells' massive work The Network Society.

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict : Class, State, and Nation in the Age of Globalization Book by Berch Berberoglu
This book serves as a much needed corrective to dominant, conventional approaches to the study of nationalism and ethnic conflict that is at once political, economic, cultural, and, above all, social. Providing a class-based perspective on nationalism and ethnonational conflict, the book makes a major contribution to the discussion and debate on the nature, dynamics, and contradictions of this all-pervasive phenomenon.

Welfare Discipline : Discourse, Governance and Globalization Book by Sanford F. Schram
In Welfare Discipline, Schram argues that it is time to take stock of the new forms of welfare and to develop even better methods to understand them. He argues for a more contextualized approach to examining welfare policy, from the use of the idea of globalization to justify cutbacks, to the increasing employment of U.S. policy discourse overseas, to the development of asset-based approaches to helping the poor.

Geographies of Globalization (Routledge Contemporary Human Geography) Book by WARWICK MURRAY
Globalization is a term that is increasingly used to rationalize a wide range of economic and political processes and explain a plethora of cultural, economic and social processes. Geographies of Globalization critically engages with the contested concept of globalization from an explicitly human geographical viewpoint, illustrating how an appreciation of the principles of the discipline is fundamental to understanding this phenomenon. Part 1 introduces the concept of globalization, while also discussing various theories and perspectives, drawing out their spatial ramifications and placing them in historical perspective.

Aging, Globalization and Inequality: The New Critical Gerontology (Society and Aging) Book by Jan Baars, Dale Dannefer, Chris Phillipson, Alan Walker (Editors)
"The most trenchant theoretical critique and theoretical statement in social gerontology to appear in many, many years." - Victor Marshall, Ph.D., Director, Institute on Aging, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Every social gerontologist should read this book". - Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., Professor of Aging, Health, and Society, Case Western Reserve University

Planning World Cities : Globalization, Urban Governance and Policy Dilemmas (Planning, Environment, Cities) Book by Peter Newman, Andrew Thornley
The core of the book focuses on an assessment of the strategic policy and planning options for major cities in response to globalization and other key issues and challenges of the twenty-first century.

Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology, Culture)  Book by Sharon R. Wesoky
Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also places this emergence in the context of theories of social movements, civil society and globalization.

Private Power, Public Law : The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)
In 1994 the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted the Agreement in Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which dictated to states how they should regulate the protection of intellectual property. This book argues that TRIPS resulted from lobbying by powerful multinational corporations who wished to mould international law to protect their markets.

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