Globalization Books
Globalization: A Basic Text
“With great clarity and historical reflection, Ritzer guides readers on a grand tour of globalization and its many facets.”
James H. Mittelman, American University
As the first full-scale textbook of its kind, this book provides a balanced introduction to the major topics in globalization studies for undergraduates throughout the world. Descriptive and critical, it makes use of maps extensively, includes a glossary of key terms, and features a supporting website with resources for both students and instructors.
Readings in Globalization: Key Concepts and Major Debates
This unique and engaging anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes.
Globalization: The Making of World Society
“Frank Lechner's text takes on key issues in the study of globalization with real clarity and critical power.”
Fran Tonkiss, London School of Economics
This stimulating, state-of-the-art textbook shows how globalization affects everyday experience, creates new institutions, and presents new challenges. With a range of supplementary online resources including an Instructor Manual, Student Study Guide, and additional study questions, it is designed to suit your undergraduate level globalization courses.
The Globalization Reader, 3rd Edition
This third edition of The Globalization Reader makes sense of globalization by conveying its complexity, importance, and contentiousness from diverse vantage points. With its broad coverage of political, economic, cultural, and individual dimensions, this volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to globalization.
Geographies of Globalization: A Critical Introduction
Exploring a wide range of issues, from the integration of the world economy to how contemporary processes are shaping and shaped by nation-states and how workers are organizing transnationally in response to transformations in the planet’s economic geography, Geographies of Globalization is a critical examination of what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world.
Global Issues: An Introduction, 3rd Edition
Global Issues, Third Edition is an introduction to many of the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life.
The Blackwell Companion to Globalization
This Companion features 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 Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change
The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the success of From Modernization to Globalization, published by the editors in 2000 and used around the world. It provides an up-to-date primer and key reference for students, scholars, and development practitioners wishing to get up to speed quickly on the issues surrounding social change and development in the “Third World.”
The Rise of the Network Society: Volume I: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, 2nd Edition with a New Preface
This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale.
The Power of Identity, Volume II: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, 2nd Edition with a New Preface
In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.
End of Millennium, Volume III: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, 2nd Edition with a New Preface
This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy, with a substantial new preface, is devoted to processes of global social change induced by the transition from the old industrial society to the emerging global network society.
Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects
A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field.
World Culture: Origins and Consequences
This book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining several of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture, including the world polity approach and globalization theory, the book gives a historical treatment of the development of world culture and assesses the complex impact of world culture on people, organizations, and societies. This is a provocative, synthetic, and grounded interpretation of world culture that is essential for any student or scholar of globalization and world affairs.
The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, 2nd Edition
Updated with a fresh introduction and brand new selections, the second edition of The Anthropology of Globalization collects some of the decade’s finest work on globalization, focusing on the increasing interconnectedness of people around the world, and the culturally specific ways in which these connections are mediated.
The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism
The Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field’s classical origins to today’s debates about the “magic” of the free market.
What Do We Know About Globalization?: Issues of Poverty and Income Distribution
What Do We Know About Globalization: Issues of Poverty & Income Distribution examines the two fundamental arguments that are often raised against globalization: that it produces inequality and that it increases poverty.
Winners and Losers in Globalization
Seeking reason in the impassioned globalization debate, de la Dehesa examines who stands to win and who stands to lose from the process of globalization, in a style accessible to readers unfamiliar with economic theory.
Assesses the impact of globalization on both labor markets and financial markets, on global economic growth and on income distribution and real convergence between different national economies.
Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity
Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles.
Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity
A student-friendly, issues-based text providing an introduction to the key ideas, concepts and themes of transport geographies. It offers an empirically informed and theoretically robust narrative that highlights the important role of transport in economic, environmental, and urban geographies.
Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization
Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions.
Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends, 2nd Edition
The second edition of this major textbook in global communication has been fully revised to bring it up to date with advances in this dynamic field. From media coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and Arabic media systems, to digital cameras and the birth of the iPod, this book offers students a comprehensive understanding of the complex international communication scene, and of the implications of rapid changes to the worldwide media landscape that continue on a daily basis.
Bridging the Gaps in Global Communication
This major textbook for a growing area of study provides the reader with the framework necessary for understanding the implications of communication in the global media marketplace. Using practical examples, Newsom offers students and media professionals an indispensable guide to mastering the art of international and intercultural communication.
Bridging the Gaps in Global Communication is accompanied by an instructor’s manual, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/newsom
Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide
Cultural Globalization is a personal and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on extensive examples and interdisciplinary research, Wise explores concepts of culture, territory and identity in order to give students a new perspective on issues of globalization.
Global Movements: Action and Culture
Over the past decade we have witnessed the extraordinary rise of new global movements that throw into question the way we think about culture, power and action in a globalizing world.
The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, 2nd Edition
The Social Movements Reader, Second Edition, provides the most important and readable articles and book selections on recent social movements from around the world.
Social Movements: An Introduction, 2nd Edition
Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in society today. In this new edition, the authors have updated all chapters with the most recent scientific literature, expanded on topics such as individual motivations, new media, public policies, and governance.
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements is a compilation of original, state-of-the-art essays by internationally recognized scholars on an array of topics in the field of social movement studies.
Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader
Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader expands on standard studies of social movements by offering a collection of writings that is exclusively anthropological in nature and global in its focus-thereby serving as an invaluable tool for instructors and students alike.
Globalization and Sport
Globalization and Sport is a unique collection which places sport at the heart of debates on global processes.
Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
Provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalization—bioscientific research, neoliberalism, governance—from the perspective of the "anthropological" problems they pose; in other words, in terms of their implications for how individual and collective life is subject to technological, political, and ethical reflection and intervention.
Global Institutions and Responsibilities: Achieving Global Justice
This book helps readers identify feasible and morally plausible reforms of global institutional arrangements and international organizations.
A Companion to Economic Geography
A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field.
A Companion to Political Geography
A Companion to Political Geography presents students and researchers with a substantial survey of this active and vibrant field.
Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics, and Power
This book thoroughly reviews recent work in political sociology, expanding the field to deal with globalization, social movements, and citizenship in terms of the "postmodern turn." This makes it very useful as a textbook. It is also a contribution to political sociology, effectively redefining the field. It argues that an understanding of cultural politics is necessary to appreciate both how the nation-state has been displaced as the center of political activity and how it is now being reformed as the internationalized state. An understanding of cultural politics enables political sociology to grasp existing potential for the democratization of contemporary social practices.
The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology
The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology brings together thirty-eight original essays covering the wide inter-disciplinary field of political sociology.
Readings in Contemporary Political Sociology
This Reader presents the best published writings of prominent sociologists and political theorists currently working in the field.
Forced Migration and Global Politics
Using real-world examples and in-depth case studies, Forced Migration and Global Politics systematically applies International Relations theory to explore the international politics of forced migration.
Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure
This path-breaking volume is the first dedicated to the problems of the North-South divide.
Ethics and International Relations
Revised and updated with new material, Ethics and International Relations offers a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical issues raised by international politics.
Adjusting to Globalization
This volume investigates the ways in which firms and workers are adjusting to globalization.
The World Economy, Global Trade Policy 2006
The thirteenth volume in this annual series analyses trade structure, Non-agricultural Market Access (NAMA) and their effect on World Trade Organization negotiations.
Globalizing South China
This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's.
Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure
"Globalization" and "Identity" are an explosive combination, demonstrated by recent outbursts of communalist violence in many parts of the world. Their varying articulations highlight the paradox that accelerating global flows of goods, persons and images go together with determined efforts towards closure, emphasis on cultural difference and fixing of identities. This collection explores this paradox of 'flow' and 'closure' through a series of detailed case studies in comparative perspective.
Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective
Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers’ support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up.
Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics
This book is concerned with the government of “illegal” immigration since the passage of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965, exploring how certain mentalities and intellectual machineries have rendered illegal immigrants as targets of government.
Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources
Globalization of Water is a first-of-its-kind review of the critical relationship between globalization and sustainable water management. It explores the impact of international trade on local water depletion and pollution and identifies “water dependent” nations.
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe
Eurostars and Eurocities examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels.
The Challenges of Globalization: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom
This volume contains eleven essays dealing with the question of how to face the current challenges of globalization. These essays examine topics ranging from global justice, international law, and human rights to ecoterrorism, cultural relativism, and the challenges of autonomy. Many of the essays included here discuss how a comprehensive ethical action is necessary in order to overcome repressive social, political, and cultural obstacles. Most of the essays in this volume were selected from the 2005 Sixth World Congress of the ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue) held in Helsinki, Finland. The volume is introduced by Steven V. Hicks, past President of the ISUD, who discusses the issues of cultural conflict and crisis in the aftermath of Nietzsche's philosophy.
