The global studies reader
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The global studies reader
Oxford University Press, c2015
2nd ed
- : [pbk.]
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-326) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Global Studies Reader, Second Edition, offers an accessible introduction to globalization that will provide students with a better understanding of what constitutes Global Studies-the transdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of globalization. Thus, the book has been carefully designed to provide a representative selection of transdisciplinary writings appropriate for undergraduate students in Global Studies. This book brings together in a single
volume some of the best pieces on the subject written by recognized scholars. These twenty seminal contributions have been kept to an easily digestible length while at the same time covering the major dimensions of globalization: politics and societies; economies and technologies; cultures and histories; and
spaces and environments. Although The Global Studies Reader purposely contains no additional sectional introductions that might interrupt the conceptual flow of the writings, it offers at the end of each of its four parts five discussion points designed to help clarify the authors' arguments and to stimulate further conversation. You will also find suggestions for additional readings and recommended websites to guide students' further research.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What Is Global Studies?
- PART I: POLITICS & SOCIETIES
- 1. Five Meanings of Global Civil Society
- Mary Kaldor
- 2. Framing Global Governance, Five Gaps
- Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss
- 3. Political Ideologies in the Age of Globalization
- Manfred B. Steger
- 4. Globalization and the Emergence of World Social Forums
- Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Donatella della Porta, Rosalba Icaza Garza, Jeffrey S. Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Peter (Jay) Smith, and Rolando Vasquez
- 5. Global Media, Mobilization, and Revolution: The Arab Spring
- Hans Schattle
- Discussion Points & Guide to Further Readings and Recommended Websites
- PART II: ECONOMIES & TECHNOLOGIES
- 6. How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts
- Pietra Rivoli
- 7. The Specter that Haunts the Global Economy: The Challenge of Global Feminism
- Valentine Moghadam
- 8. Designing Capitalism 3.0
- Dani Rodrik
- 9. The Global Network Society
- Manuel Castells
- 10. The Googlization of Us: Universal Surveillance and Infrastructural Imperialism
- Siva Vaidhyanathan
- Discussion Points & Guide to Further Readings and Recommended Websites
- PART III: CULTURES & HISTORIES
- 11. Globalization: Long Term Process or New Era in Human Affairs?
- William H. McNeill
- 12. Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses
- Nayan Chanda
- 13. Culture: The Glocal Game, Cosmopolitanism and Americanization
- Richard Giulanotti and Roland Robertson
- 14. The American Global Cultural Brand
- Lane Crothers
- 15. The Religion Market
- Olivier Roy
- Discussion Points & Guide to Further Readings and Recommended Websites
- PART IV: SPACES & ENVIROMENTS
- 16. The Urban Climacteric
- Mike Davis
- 17. The Improbable Life of an Urban Patch: Deciphering the Hidden Logic of Global Urban Growth
- Jeb Brugmann
- 18. Mobile Global Citizens
- Luis Cabrera
- 19. An Overheated Planet
- Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley
- 20. The One-Degree War
- Paul Gilding
- Discussion Points & Guide to Further Readings and Recommended Websites
- Index
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