Globalization, Cultural Identities, And Media Representations (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies) (May 2006 Book)
by Natascha Gentz (Editor), Stefan Kramer (Editor)
Explores the role of media in the construction of cultural identities. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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. The contributors cover a wide range of topics from different geopolitical areas, historical periods, and media genres. Case studies examined include the shift from print to Internet, local representations of modern world cinema and glo/cal television, narrative strategies in transnational literature, and cultural economics of the mediation of world music in India, China, Algeria, Israel, Europe, and the United States. This case study approach allows for deeper insights into the complexity of each cultural subsystem as part of the whole media culture system. This book exemplifies a transcultural and transdisciplinary dialogue that maps out new—relocalized—territories and borders for mediated cultural identities and also reveals the complexity and connectedness of all of these discourses.
"This is a fabulous collection of cultural plentitude and critical lucidity that actively comes to terms with the altered ‘global village’ media formations, fluctuating dialectics, historical situations, and unstable identity terrains of globalization and localization. It will stand at the forefront of global cultural-political theory and cultural studies work." - Rob Wilson, University of California at Santa Cruz.
Contributors include Aleida Assmann, Peter Braun, Miriam Butt, Arif Dirlik, Wimal Dissanayake, Natascha Gentz, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Roger Hillman, Stefan Kramer, Tamar Liebes, Irmbert Schenk, Michael Stone, and Kyle Wohlmut.

Development Models, Globalization and Economies : A Search for the Holy Grail ? (April 18, 2006 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. The US or Anglo-Saxon model is often portrayed as the best, yet Europe has a well-known Social Model, and Asia has enjoyed success in the past wherein the "Asian economic miracle" was highly vaunted before their crash. But now Asia, especially China, is again on a roll. The book analyses how these models have influenced both regional and global development, and finally engages in discussions upon alternatives and the search for the "grail".

Globalization From Below : Transnational Activists And Protest Networks (Social Movements, Protest and Contention) (April 2, 2006 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. The authors traveled to Genoa with anti-G8 protesters and collected data from more than 800 participants. A year later, they surveyed 2,400 activists at the European Social Forum in Florence. To understand how this cycle of global protest emerged, they examine the interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how these new models of activism fit into current social movement work. Globalization from Below places the protests within larger debates, revealing and investigating the forces that led to a clash between demonstrators and the Italian government, which responded with violence. Donatella della Porta is professor of political science; Massimiliano Andretta is a researcher in political science and sociology; Lorenzo Mosca is a researcher in information and communication technologies; Herbert Reiter is a researcher in history, all at the European University Institute.

Discovering Nature : Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan (Hardcover) (February 16, 2006 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. Inevitably differences of understanding across groups have caused problems in administering environmental reforms. They will have to be resolved if the dynamic transformations of the 1980s are to be maintained in the twenty-first century.
Robert P. Weller is Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. His numerous books and articles on China and Taiwan range from religion to political change, including most recently Civil Life, Political Change, and Globalization in Asia (editor, 2005).

China and Globalization: The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society (Globalizing Regions) (Paperback) (February 6, 2006 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. In its quarter-century long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed from a desperately poor nation into a country possessing one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie covers the social, economic, and political factors responsible for the revolutionary changes, and interweaves this broader structural analysis with a consideration of social changes at the micro and macro levels. The book also considers the potential for further change. Will China become more democratic? Will the government become more serious about protecting human rights and creating a transparent legal system? How will China's explosive growth impact both East Asia and the larger global economy? In sum, this will be a sophisticated, definitive yet compact overview of the effects of massive social, economic, and political reforms on the most populous nation in the world.
Books in this series look at how nations and regions across the world are navigating the tumultuous currents of globalization. Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed, they serve as ideal introductions to the peoples and places of our increasingly globalized world.

Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution (February 3, 2006 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. Defending those wages will require new policies of social insurance and redistribution: an egalitarianism suited to a newly global economy. This is a large political challenge. But if the advanced economies continue on their current path and fail to meet this challenge, political opposition to globalization is likely to grow. If it does, we will see renewed trade barriers. And those barriers may have disastrous consequences for the world's poor. What we have is, in short, a powerful and original defense of global solidarity.
William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University : This stellar volume by a Who's Who list of scholars demolishes the simplistic myths about globalization preventing egalitarian redistribution. It will be required reading for years to come for those who want to understand globalization and redistribution at a deeper level than the standard textbook platitudes.
Dilip Mookherjee, Professor of Economics, Boston University, author of "The Crisis in Government Accountability" : This timely volume offers a pioneering and comprehensive treatment of an important facet of globalization--its relation to economic redistribution. This is a topic motivating a lot of speculation, discussion, and research these days, so it is very useful to obtain an informed perspective on different viewpoints and what we know about their underpinnings. Each of this book's essays, by eminent scholars, represents a serious attempt to assemble theoretical and empirical arguments, using state-of-the-art methodology.
John Stephens, Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, author of "Development and Crisis of the Welfare State" : An outstanding contribution to the field. The authors analyze the impact of globalization in a refreshingly nuanced fashion.
Can the welfare state survive in an economically integrated world? Many have argued that globalization has undermined national policies to raise the living standards and enhance the economic opportunities of the poor. This book, by sixteen of the world's leading authorities in international economics and the welfare state, suggests a surprisingly different set of consequences: Globalization does not preclude social insurance and egalitarian redistribution--but it does change the mix of policies that can accomplish these ends.
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. This flow has meanwhile created opportunities for enhancing the welfare of the less well off in poor and middle-income countries. Comprising eleven essays framed by the editors' introduction and conclusion, this book represents the first systematic look at how globalization affects policies aimed at reducing inequalities.
The contributors are Keith Banting, Pranab Bardhan, Carles Boix, Samuel Bowles, Minsik Choi, Richard Johnston, Covadonga Meseguer Yebra, Karl Ove Moene, Layna Mosley, Claus Offe, Ugo Pagano, Adam Przeworski, Kenneth Scheve, Matthew J. Slaughter, Stuart Soroka, and Michael Wallerstein.

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover) (January 9, 2006 Book)
by Jeffry A. Frieden
Frieden, an academic, traces the history of globalization from the late 1800s to the present, telling us, "Global economy and culture form a nearly seamless web in which the national boundaries are increasingly irrelevant to trade, investment, finance and other economic activity." Globalization is a choice formed by politics and policy decisions. It is now considered the norm, a fact of life that will continue. However, the author points out that this was also true from the end of the 1800s to 1914 and the start of World War I. The foundations of preexisting global economic order disintegrated, reemerging in the 1970s but not thriving until the 1990s. International integration usually expands economic opportunities and benefits society, but global capitalism, which does not address those ill-treated by world markets (e.g., the unemployed, the poor, children and the elderly), has driven societies toward conflict and class warfare. This is an excellent, readable history of globalization with important lessons for our society today. Mary Whaley - Copyright © American Library Association.
A rich, revealing history of the economic and political events that have shaped our time.
International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before....Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914.
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. His history is full of character and event, as entertaining as it is enlightening. It deepens our understanding of the century just past and sheds light on our current situation.

Cities in Transition : Globalization, Political Change and Urban Development (GeoJournal Library) (Hardcover) (January 2006 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 thus challenges Sassen’s hypothesis that globalization as a process forces uniformity upon individual regions or cities and imprints macro-cultural structural patterns onto local forms. 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. Berlin, Brussels, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sarajevo and Vienna: Using these important cities the special relationship between global and local/regional forces is analyzed. The case studies were selected based on their political and cultural context and the fact that their social and political fabric was subject to major changes in the recent past. How global processes manifest themselves locally depends to a great extent on how development processes and endogenic potentials are initiated locally in order to cope with the new global economic and societal conditions.

Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization - Edited by Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos - March 2005 Edition Book. Provides students with groundbreaking essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists who stress the need to put different approaches to reality and to scholarship into relation in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South, East/West divides. Contemporary feminists face the labor of moving beyond the dominant paradigms of knowledge and communication that drive corporate globalization. Dialogue and Difference, a new collection edited by Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos, provides students with groundbreaking essays by an international group of feminist scholars and activists who stress the need to put different approaches to reality and to scholarship into relation in order to build coalitions across the usual North/South, East/West divides. Modeling ways to weave these connections, the authors take difference, rather than isomorphic similarity, to be the basis for effective anti-imperial feminist theory and practice. These 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.

George Soros on Globalization
Edition: March, 2005 Book. Soros has an admirable track record and the virtue of hindsight (his foundations have done innovative work and his take on what could have been done in Russia over the past decade is compelling). He equates globalization with "the free movement of capital and the increasing domination of national economies by global financial markets and multinational corporations."

International Migration : Globalization's Last Frontier (Global Issues) (June 12, 2006 Book)
by Jonathon W. Moses
'An excellent book - cogent, well-argued and comprehensive. Right on target for a world that is not fully reconciled to the logic of globalisation.' - Nigel Harris, Professor Emeritus, University College London; author of The New Untouchables: Immigration and the new world worker; Thinking the Unthinkable: the immigration myth exposed.
'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. There has been almost an academic conspiracy of silence on the question of international migration. In this book the author weaves together political, economic and moral arguments to make a persuasive case for his vision of a world without borders. 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
Jonathon Moses makes moral, political and economic arguments in favor of the free mobility of human beings across national borders. Pointing to the importance of immigration to the sucess of many nations, he shows that Europe itself now faces a falling population, and has over the past fifty years actively encouraged huge immigration from other countries. There is near consensus across the political spectrum that the free movement of goods and free movement of capital are good for economies, and therefore should apply to people as well.

How "American" Is Globalization? (April 22, 2006 Book) by William H. Marling
"In a first-rate book about a topic of major importance, Marling challenges the conventional wisdom about how the world is becoming 'Americanized.' Extraordinarily impressive."--Richard Pells, University of Texas
William Marling's provocative work analyzes -- in specific terms -- the impacts of American technology and culture on foreign societies. Marling answers his own question -- how "American" is globalization? -- with two seemingly contradictory answers: "less than you think" and "more than you know." Deconstructing the myth of global Americanization, he argues that despite the typically American belief that the United States dominates foreign countries, the practical effects of "Americanization" amount to less than one might suppose.
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 -- from translating films and television into hundreds of languages to changing the menu at a McDonalds to include the Japanese favorite Chicken Tastuta.
Marling also examines the unexpected ways in which American technology travels abroad: the technological transferability of the ATM, the practice of franchising, and "shop-floor" American innovations like shipping containers, bar codes, and computers. These technologies convey American attitudes about work, leisure, convenience, credit, and travel, but as Marling shows, they take root overseas in ways that are anything but "American."

Civil Society, Globalization and Political Change in Asia; Organizing Between Family and State (Politics in Asia Series) (March 31, 2006 Book)
by ROBERT WELLER
Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. However, critics of these organizations have pointed out that NGOs tend to be undemocratic in their internal politics, they speak for groups of people to whom they are not accountable through elections or financial support and they often represent the interests of people in wealthy countries at the expense of truly indigenous people. The main questions revolve around whether, and how NGOs actually lead to democratization, and the ways in which NGOs relate to broader global forces.
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 including Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam.

The New Geography of Global Income Inequality (March 31, 2006 Book)
by Glenn Firebaugh
Choice, September, 2003
No scholar matches Firebaugh ... clearly-written, well-organized, and methodologically sound. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty collections. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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). Firebaugh claims that this historic transition represents a new geography of global income inequality in the twenty-first century.
This book documents the new geography, describes its causes, and explains why other analysts have missed one of the defining features of our era—a transition in inequality that is reducing the importance of where a person is born in determining his or her future well-being.

Connectivity in Antiquity: Globalization as a Long-Term Historical Process (Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology) (Hardcover) (March 30, 2006 Book) by Oystein S. LaBianca (Editor), Sandra Arnold Scham (Editor)
Today's political minds assure us that the more "connected" societies are the less danger they pose to global stability-but is this a "new" idea or one that is as old as history itself? Trade networks that began as far back as human prehistory were responsible for exchanges of ideas as well as goods and the "ripple effects" of these networks were the expansionist compulsions of historical States and empires. These papers tell us that the civilizations of the ancient past may have had more in common with modern global enterprises than was ever before imagined. 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 (March 28, 2006 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 (Paperback) (February 28, 2006 Book)
by Sanford F. Schram
For the past decade, political scientist Sanford Schram has led the academic effort to understand how Americans and their political officials talk about poverty and welfare and what impact that discourse has on policy and on the global society.
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.
Stressing the importance of understanding the ways we talk about welfare, how we study it, and, critically, what we do not discuss and why, Schram offers recommendations for making welfare policy both just and effective. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Rethinking the American understanding of poverty, welfare, and the language used to describe them

Geographies of Globalization (Routledge Contemporary Human Geography) (January 13, 2006 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. Despite this, it is rarely well defined or critically appraised. As both a process and political agenda, it is a theme that has become increasingly pervasive in human geography written in the last 20 years.
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. It also analyses the geographical work of non-geographers. 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. Part 2 breaks down and analyses the process into overlapping economic, political and socio-economic spheres emphasizing the links and breaks between change in these areas. The environmental impacts of globalization are integrated throughout. Part 3 uses case studies from the UK, USA, Argentina and Mozambique to ground the processes introduced in the previous part. Part 4 draws together the theoretical, historical and empirical analysis in order to reflect on the changing nature of globalization, resistance to it and the implications of this for human geography.
In summarizing and analyzing the major arguments put forward to explain, promote and criticize globalization, the reader is provided with a critical resource through which to make sense of the confusing array of competing perspectives. Boxed sections highlight and explain "key concepts" in a jargon free manner and showcase classic and innovative work by geographers in the field. The book is highly illustrated with figures and photographs, as well as chapter summaries and annotated further reading.

Aging, Globalization and Inequality: The New Critical Gerontology (Society and Aging) (Hardcover) (January 22, 2006 Book)
by Jan Baars (Editor), Dale Dannefer (Editor), Chris Phillipson (Editor), Alan Walker (Editor)
Victor Marshall, Ph.D., Director, Institute on Aging, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"The most trenchant theoretical critique and theoretical statement in social gerontology to appear in many, many years."
"Every social gerontologist should read this book". - Robert H. Binstock, Ph.D., Professor of Aging, Health, and Society, Case Western Reserve University

Globalization: An Asian Perspective On Modernity And Politics In America
by Antonio L. Rappa
Edition - March 2005 Book

Globalization And Health (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology) - Edition: December 30, 2004 Book
by Richard L. Harris, MELINDA SEID
International contributors to a dozen essays treat these public health issues via theoretical and pragmatic frameworks. A World Health Organization-sponsored paper concludes that, for developing countries, comparative case studies may be more useful than traditional health measures due to unreliable data.

Institutional Change and Globalization  Book John L. Campbell Edition:July2004. This book is about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen. It is the first book to identify problems with the "new institutional analysis," which has emerged as one of the dominant approaches to the study of organizations, economic and political sociology, comparative political economy, politics, and international relations.

Planning World Cities : Globalization, Urban Governance and Policy Dilemmas (Planning, Environment, Cities) (November 27, 2004 Book)
by Peter Newman, Andrew Thornley
This internationally comparative text on urban planning covers both the global and regional context in which it takes place and the different combinations of issues confronting different types of cities. In contrast to existing texts the book considers both what have traditionally been regarded as "world cities" (London, New York, Tokyo) and a range of other important cities in the European, American and Asian regions. 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.
Peter Newman is Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Governance, University of Westminster. Andy Thornley is Director of Regional and Urban Planning Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalization, Work And Inequality
by Fran Tonkiss - Edition: July 2005 Book

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)
Book by Susan K. Sell, Steve Smith (Series Editor), Thomas Biersteker (Series Editor), Chris Brown (Series Editor), Phil Cerny
(Series Editor), Joseph Grieco (Series Editor), A. J. R. Groom (Series Editor), Richard Higgott (Series Editor), G. John
Ikenberry (Series Editor), Caroline Kennedy-Pipe (Series Editor), Steve Lamy (Series Editor)
Review
'... a very good book ... lucidly and engagingly written as well as being excellently researched.' The King's College Law Journal
Susan Sell's book reveals how power in international politics is increasingly exercised by private interests rather than
governments. 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.