The Routledge international handbook of globalization studies /

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Imprint:Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Description:xxiv, 702 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge international handbooks
Routledge international handbooks.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8001595
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Other authors / contributors:Turner, Bryan S.
ISBN:9780415458085 (hardback)
0415458080 (hardback)
9780203870006 (e-book)
020387000X (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Handbook of Globalization Studies
  • Section one. Theories and definitions
  • 1. Theories of Globalization: issues and origins
  • 2. Cultural theories of globalization
  • 3. The Internet and Virtual Reality: recent theories of media and information
  • 4. Economic theories of globalisation
  • 5. Anti-globalisation
  • 6. From globalism to empire
  • 7. Vulnerability and Globalisation: the social impact
  • Second Section. Substantive Issues
  • 8. Transformations of the world's population: the demographic revolution
  • 9. Globalisation and the History of Great Migrations
  • 10. Globalisation Patriarchy and Labour Migration: feminist perspectives
  • 11. The Environmental Crisis and Global Warming
  • 12. Military Regimes and Terror
  • 13. Globalization of Infectious Disease: new plagues
  • 14. Global Organ Transplants
  • 15. Global Inequality, Poverty and Famine
  • 16. Globalization of Crime
  • 17. Globalization of Religious Fundamentalism
  • 18. Globalization and the Destruction of Aboriginal Societies
  • 19. Genocide, atrocity and ethnic cleansing
  • 20. Global Elites
  • Section Three. New Institutions and Cultures
  • 21. Fandom and Popular Media Consumption
  • 22. Hollywood, Bollywood and Beyond
  • 23. Global Cities
  • 24. Global Consumption
  • 25. Global Universities and Global Science
  • 26. Global Food
  • 27. Globalization, Borders and Passports
  • 28. Globalization of Space
  • Section Four. Critical Solutions
  • 29. ILO and Labour Law
  • 30. Globalisation of Human Rights
  • 31. Global civil Society and the World Social Forum
  • 32. Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Contemporary Practice and Social Theory
  • 33. Perpetual Peace and Global Governance: ? cosmopolitanism and International Society
  • 34. The Future of Globalization