The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on global culture, with emphasis on the global rise of religious violence and the challenge to the secular state. He has published more than two hundred articles and twenty books, including and the widely-read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, 2003), and God in the Tumult of the Global Square, co-authored with Dinah Griego and John Soboslai (University of California Press, 2015). He also has edited The Oxford Handbook of Global Religion (Oxford University Press, 2006). Manfred Steger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and Honorary Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the US State Department and is the author or editor of over twenty books onglobalization, global history, and the history of political ideas, including: The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy (Sage, 2013).Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her newest book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2014). Victor Faessel, managing editor of the handbook, is Associate Director of the Mellichamp Initiative on 21st Century Global Dynamics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

sets itself apart from other global studies reference sources by focusing on the field of global studies instead of only topics falling under the global studies umbrella. It would be of great interest to those teaching or studying within global studies programs.

• I. Global Studies The emergence of a new academic field1. What is Global Studies? Manfred B. Steger 2. The Evolution of Global Studies Mark Juergensmeyer 3. Antecedents of the Field Roland Robertson4. Major Thinkers in Global Studies Paul James II. Global ThinkingAnalytical approaches and conceptual considerations 5. Researching the Localizations of the Global Saskia Sassen6. Glocalization Habibul Khondker7. Global History Dominic Sachsenmaier8. Transdisciplinarity James Mittelman and Daniel Esser9. Problem Orientation Paul Battersby10. Worldview Analysis Mona Kanwal Sheikh11. Anthropocene Thesis Simon Dalby12. Global Epistemology Mohammed Bamyeh13. Global Studies vs. International Studies Sara Curran 14. Inequality from the Perspective of the Global South Manoranjan Mohanty 15. Feminist Perspectives, Critiques and Contributions Valentine Moghadam 16. Decolonizing Global Studies Eve Darian Smith III. Global ConcernsIssues and themes at the core of global research and teaching17. Financialization Ravi Roy and Thomas Willett18. Labor Rich Appelbaum 19. Transnational Capitalist Class William I. Robinson and Jeb Sprague-Silgado20. The Impact of Global Financial Crises Walden Bello21. Trafficking Paul Amar 22. Migration Sucheng Chan23. War and Militarization Jairus Grove24. Security: The Disconnect with Globalization Monica Duffy Toft and Allard Duursma25. Human Rights Michael Forman26. Democracy Jan Aart Scholte27. Impoverishment in the Anthropocene Era Upendra Baxi28. Religious Globalisms Jeffrey Haynes29. Art and the Process of Globalization Linda Williams30. Urbanization Peter Taylor31. Multiculturalism Nandita Sharma32. The Female Body in Global Media Tuija Parikka 33. Digital connectivity Tanya Lewis34. Media Industry Jack Lule35. Global Sports Richard Giulianotti36. Global Food Politics Hilal Elver 37. Climate change Clive Hamilton 38. Pandemics Kathryn H. Jacobsen39. Environmental Critique Patrick Bond IV. Global CitizenshipIdeas and institutions for an emerging global world40. Civil Society Karen Buckley41. Global Citizenship Hans Schattle42. Global Movements Donatella della Porta43. Humanitarian Organizations Katherine Marshall44. Global Law Richard Falk45. Global Governance Helmut Anheier