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Globalization and Emerging Societies
Development and Inequality
AvJan Nederveen Pieterse,Boike Rehbein
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This upper level textbook provides readers with evocative and analytical accounts ofsocial processes that are linked to globalization and connectivity, which includes a widerange of multi-centred connections in history, DNA analysis, technology, art populismand political economy.Rather than globalization, Nederveen Pieterse focuses on connectivity. His approachto globalization differs from both structuralist accounts of the world-system, and theinstitutionally-centred focus of much work in international studies. This synthesis willprovide a new resource to reconstruct theoretical approaches to globalization andglobal studies.Fluently written, clearly organized and with an interdisciplinary approach, the bookwill be accessible to upper division undergraduates and graduates in social sciences andhumanities, including students and researchers from the fields of sociology, politics,political economy, development studies and international relations.
Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies
AvB. Rehbein
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
546 kr
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This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.
Gaze of the West and Framings of the East
AvS. Nair-Venugopal
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
546 kr
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This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization.
Ideology in a Global Age
Continuity and Change
AvR. Soborski
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
546 kr
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This book challenges the popular view that established ideologies no longer make sense in today's globalizing world. Considered from a broad historical perspective, major ideological traditions have not become destabilized and incoherent by globalization, but remain meaningful political beliefs that shape the globalization debate.
New Middle Class in China
Consumption, Politics and the Market Economy
AvE. Tsang
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.
Globalization and Emerging Societies
Development and Inequality
AvJan Nederveen Pieterse,Boike Rehbein
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This upper level textbook provides readers with evocative and analytical accounts ofsocial processes that are linked to globalization and connectivity, which includes a widerange of multi-centred connections in history, DNA analysis, technology, art populismand political economy.Rather than globalization, Nederveen Pieterse focuses on connectivity. His approachto globalization differs from both structuralist accounts of the world-system, and theinstitutionally-centred focus of much work in international studies. This synthesis willprovide a new resource to reconstruct theoretical approaches to globalization andglobal studies.Fluently written, clearly organized and with an interdisciplinary approach, the bookwill be accessible to upper division undergraduates and graduates in social sciences andhumanities, including students and researchers from the fields of sociology, politics,political economy, development studies and international relations.
Re-Imagined Universities and Global Citizen Professionals
International Education, Cosmopolitan Pedagogies and Global Friendships
AvShanti George
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 055 kr
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Universities are increasingly criticised for their limited relevance to a globalized and unequal world. Drawing on research from over 27 countries, this book outlines new directions for universities and the need to rethink the education that they provide based on the experiences of schools of international development studies.
Mediated Citizenship
The Informal Politics of Speaking for Citizens in the Global South
AvLaurence Piper,L. Piper
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
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Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the state through third party intermediaries. The studies show that mediation is both widely practiced and multi-directional and that it has an important role to play in deepening democracy in the global South.
Border Shifts
New Mobilities in Europe and Beyond
AvN. Ribas-Mateos
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
546 kr
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Border Shifts develops a more complex and multifaceted understanding of global borders, analysing internal and external EU borders from the Mediterranean region to the US-Mexico border, and exploring a range of issues including securitization, irregular migration, race, gender and human trafficking.
Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Relations
AvFred Dervin,Regis Machart
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
546 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The concept of culture has long been criticized, with many scholars reformulating it or discarding it entirely. The field of intercultural communication and relations, however, still relies on culture to examine interculturality and this volume provides a comprehensive examination of the problems that the concept poses today.
Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures
AvChantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo,Boike Rehbeinm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 086 kr
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This book questions why Southeast Asian nation states are struggling to adopt full-fledged liberal democracy and attempts to better understand the relationship between globalization and models of democracy. Country studies are covered mostly by native Southeast Asian scholars who analyse recent developments as well as specific concerns that have arisen from political crises, citizen uprisings, ethnic identity politics, political reforms, social justice and inequality, and the persistence of the political elite. The collection highlights factors which have impacted the different regional and national paths taken such as: the legacy of the Cold War, rapid economic development and liberalization, external economic globalization, the important role of informal politics, powerful elites, and weak but emerging middle classes. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of regional studies of Southeast Asia, Democracy, Sociology, Politics and GlobalizationStudies.
Managing Chineseness
Identity and Ethnic Management in Singapore
AvDaphnee Lee
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
978 kr
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This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore. Looking at Chinese Singaporean employees at a French multi-national firm, the author explores the evolving social constructions of ‘Chineseness’. Sociologist Manuel Castells once hailed Singapore as ‘the only true Leninist project that has survived’, and Lee revisits the Singapore ‘social laboratory’, addressing recent dialectics that transpire within the global political economy. Currently, professional actors need to address the demands of dual hegemony in response to China’s rise in the Western-dominated capitalist political economy. Underlying these constructions are enduring dispositions that mediate interpretations of professionalism. The author puts to test the potential for change, surveying a large cohort of teachers as makers of future professionals. The question is, does change occurin the domain of practice or the habitus, if it is possible in the first place? The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sociology, Identity and Ethnicity, Business Management, Globalisation, Organizational Sociology and Sociology of Education.
Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies
AvB. Rehbein
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.
Gaze of the West and Framings of the East
AvS. Nair-Venugopal
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon contemporary culture to argue that Easternization is another type of globalization.
Ideology in a Global Age
Continuity and Change
AvR. Soborski
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book challenges the popular view that established ideologies no longer make sense in today's globalizing world. Considered from a broad historical perspective, major ideological traditions have not become destabilized and incoherent by globalization, but remain meaningful political beliefs that shape the globalization debate.
New Middle Class in China
Consumption, Politics and the Market Economy
AvE. Tsang
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the Chinese new middle class is distinguished more by socio-cultural than by economic factors.
Re-Imagined Universities and Global Citizen Professionals
International Education, Cosmopolitan Pedagogies and Global Friendships
AvShanti George
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
1 055 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Universities are increasingly criticised for their limited relevance to a globalized and unequal world. Drawing on research from over 27 countries, this book outlines new directions for universities and the need to rethink the education that they provide based on the experiences of schools of international development studies.
Mediated Citizenship
The Informal Politics of Speaking for Citizens in the Global South
AvL. Piper
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
546 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the state through third party intermediaries. The studies show that mediation is both widely practiced and multi-directional and that it has an important role to play in deepening democracy in the global South.
Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia
Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures
AvChantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo,Boike Rehbeinm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
1 086 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book questions why Southeast Asian nation states are struggling to adopt full-fledged liberal democracy and attempts to better understand the relationship between globalization and models of democracy. Country studies are covered mostly by native Southeast Asian scholars who analyse recent developments as well as specific concerns that have arisen from political crises, citizen uprisings, ethnic identity politics, political reforms, social justice and inequality, and the persistence of the political elite. The collection highlights factors which have impacted the different regional and national paths taken such as: the legacy of the Cold War, rapid economic development and liberalization, external economic globalization, the important role of informal politics, powerful elites, and weak but emerging middle classes. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of regional studies of Southeast Asia, Democracy, Sociology, Politics and GlobalizationStudies.
Middle Classes in Africa
Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges
AvLena Kroeker,David O'Kanem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
1 086 kr
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This volume challenges the concept of the ‘new African middle class’ with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse middle classes are on the rise, but models of class based on experiences from other regions of the world cannot be easily transferred to the African continent. Empirical contributions, drawn from a diverse range of contexts, address both African histories of class formation and the political roles of the continent’s middle classes, and also examine the important interdependencies that cut across inter-generational, urban-rural and class divides. This thought-provoking book argues emphatically for a revision of common notions of the 'middle class', and for the inclusion of insights 'from the South' into the global debate on class.Middle Classes in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as NGOs and policy makers with an interest in African societies.
Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa
Beyond Class
AvDieter Neubert
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 194 kr
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This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored.For an analysis of the social structures and persisting extreme inequality in African societies – and in other societies of the world – we need to go beyond class, consider the empirical realities and provincialise our conventional theories. This book develops a new framework for the analysis of social structure based on empirical findings and more nuanced approaches, including livelihood analysis and intersectionality, and will be useful for students and scholars in African studies and development studies, sociology, social anthropology, political science and geography.
Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa
Beyond Class
AvDieter Neubert
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
1 194 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored.For an analysis of the social structures and persisting extreme inequality in African societies – and in other societies of the world – we need to go beyond class, consider the empirical realities and provincialise our conventional theories. This book develops a new framework for the analysis of social structure based on empirical findings and more nuanced approaches, including livelihood analysis and intersectionality, and will be useful for students and scholars in African studies and development studies, sociology, social anthropology, political science and geography.
Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour
A Rising Fickleness
AvJaap van Ginneken
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
1 623 kr
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This book introduces principles of Chaos theory (and Complex Adaptive Systems) to social science, in a lively and elegant way. It applies it to the twin disciplines of mass psychology (under social psychology, mostly in Europe) and collective behavior sociology (mostly in North America) that deal with emergent psychosocial phenomena that lie outside conventional approaches. Each of the eleven chapters begins with a topical ‘case study’ section, on an issue related to climate change and collective behaviour, such as the ‘school strike’ by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, the Hollywood movie The Day After Tomorrow, and more. This book aims to show that there are fundamental reasons why many phenomena cannot be easily ‘measured, predicted and controlled’, and thus we need to familiarize ourselves with alternative ways of thinking about them.
Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour
A Rising Fickleness
AvJaap van Ginneken
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
1 623 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This book introduces principles of Chaos theory (and Complex Adaptive Systems) to social science, in a lively and elegant way. It applies it to the twin disciplines of mass psychology (under social psychology, mostly in Europe) and collective behavior sociology (mostly in North America) that deal with emergent psychosocial phenomena that lie outside conventional approaches. Each of the eleven chapters begins with a topical ‘case study’ section, on an issue related to climate change and collective behaviour, such as the ‘school strike’ by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, the Hollywood movie The Day After Tomorrow, and more. This book aims to show that there are fundamental reasons why many phenomena cannot be easily ‘measured, predicted and controlled’, and thus we need to familiarize ourselves with alternative ways of thinking about them.
Extractive Bargains
Natural Resources and the State-Society Nexus
AvPaul Bowles,Nathan Andrews
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 516 kr
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This book is the first to focus on state-led ‘extractive bargains,’ designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated. These state-led ‘bargains’ have taken a number of different forms and offer varying degrees of promise in meeting environmental and social concerns. The book critically examines ‘bargains’ in states across the Global North and the Global South, incorporates Indigenous issues, and judiciously assesses their prospects for promoting long-term sustainability. It focusses on mineral and fossil fuel extraction in particular including bargains designed to govern the former as the demand for minerals used in “green energy” increases and to limit the use of the latter.The book will be of interest to students and researchers of global studies, global political economy, political science, political sociology, sustainability, environmental sociology, development studies and geography. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Extractive Bargains
Natural Resources and the State-Society Nexus
AvPaul Bowles,Nathan Andrews
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
1 516 kr
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This book is the first to focus on state-led ‘extractive bargains,’ designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how they should be governed and their negative consequences mitigated. These state-led ‘bargains’ have taken a number of different forms and offer varying degrees of promise in meeting environmental and social concerns. The book critically examines ‘bargains’ in states across the Global North and the Global South, incorporates Indigenous issues, and judiciously assesses their prospects for promoting long-term sustainability. It focusses on mineral and fossil fuel extraction in particular including bargains designed to govern the former as the demand for minerals used in “green energy” increases and to limit the use of the latter.The book will be of interest to students and researchers of global studies, global political economy, political science, political sociology, sustainability, environmental sociology, development studies and geography. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Pax Americana
Unending War on Iraq
AvJacqueline S. Ismael,Tareq Y. Ismaelm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 450 kr
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This book surveys the testimony of international organizations of the impact of American foreign policy on Iraq. Each reveals a fragment of Iraq’s mosaic of misery and desolation, but lacks the context to permit our understanding why this has happened. A parallel lack of context characterizes most of the political commentary, overlooking the recurring pattern of victimization of Iraqis, regardless of which political party controls the White House. This book takes a broader perspective, to reveal the enduring pattern linking specific events.
Pax Americana
Unending War on Iraq
AvJacqueline S. Ismael,Tareq Y. Ismaelm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
1 450 kr
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This book surveys the testimony of international organizations of the impact of American foreign policy on Iraq. Each reveals a fragment of Iraq’s mosaic of misery and desolation, but lacks the context to permit our understanding why this has happened. A parallel lack of context characterizes most of the political commentary, overlooking the recurring pattern of victimization of Iraqis, regardless of which political party controls the White House. This book takes a broader perspective, to reveal the enduring pattern linking specific events.
Middle Classes in Africa
Changing Lives and Conceptual Challenges
AvLena Kroeker,David O'Kanem. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
1 516 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
This volume challenges the concept of the ‘new African middle class’ with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diverse middle classes are on the rise, but models of class based on experiences from other regions of the world cannot be easily transferred to the African continent. Empirical contributions, drawn from a diverse range of contexts, address both African histories of class formation and the political roles of the continent’s middle classes, and also examine the important interdependencies that cut across inter-generational, urban-rural and class divides. This thought-provoking book argues emphatically for a revision of common notions of the 'middle class', and for the inclusion of insights 'from the South' into the global debate on class.Middle Classes in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, as well as NGOs and policy makers with an interest in African societies.
Work and Play of the Mind in the Information Age
Whose Property?
AvPhillip Kalantzis-Cope
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
849 kr
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This book tells a series of living stories about a domain of social activity, “the work and play of the mind,” in a particular historical epoch: the “information age.” The stories concern political processes and movements as varied as the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, China’s Great Firewall, practices of image sharing in social media, Occupy Wall Street, The Arab Spring, The Alt-Right, and the use of geographical indications by indigenous peoples and farmers to defend their lifestyles.In its theoretical analysis, the book illuminates four alternative political agendas for the work and play of the mind. These four “propertyscapes” represent competing visions for social life, framing projects for collective political action that are at times competing, at times overlapping. The author prompts us to consider whose property is the work and play of the mind, as well as addressing larger questions regarding the framing of political space, the kinds of political communities we may need for the future, and the changing place of the work and play of the mind within these social imaginaries. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including media and communications, arts and design, law, politics and interdisciplinary social sciences.

Frontiers of Globalization – serie

Globalization and Emerging Societies

Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies

Gaze of the West and Framings of the East

Ideology in a Global Age

New Middle Class in China

Globalization and Emerging Societies

Re-Imagined Universities and Global Citizen Professionals

Mediated Citizenship

Border Shifts

Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Relations

Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia

Managing Chineseness

Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies

Gaze of the West and Framings of the East

Ideology in a Global Age

New Middle Class in China

Re-Imagined Universities and Global Citizen Professionals

Mediated Citizenship

Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia

Middle Classes in Africa

Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa

Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa

Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour

Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour

Extractive Bargains

Extractive Bargains

Pax Americana

Pax Americana

Middle Classes in Africa

Work and Play of the Mind in the Information Age