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Embracing emancipation
WINNER, 2024 LAWRENCE J. McCAFFREY PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK ON IRISH AMERICAChallenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans’ unceasing opposition to Black freedomEmbracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Iris...
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Enabling gender equality
This volume of Research in Political Sociology addresses a broad range of gender equality issues from women's status and opportunities at work, education, health, political participation, community involvement and global migration; from a vast domain of countries in Europe, America, Australia, As...
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Envisioning the world: mapping and making the global
The “global” is continually made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, language, and literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets.
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Escaping dystopia
Multiple crises have led many to conclude that the current economic and political system is broken. The present and future look increasingly precarious – if not outright dystopian Stephen McBride calls for radical solutions to these crises to provide a more rational and sustainable future. He cr...
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Escaping the resource curse
The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with large...
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European products
Illuminates how heritage management has provided inroads for the Europeanization of societies in southern Europe - this is unique and has hardly been tackled, neither in European Studies nor in Heritage Studies. Does not only address the notion that "heritage" is the outcome of processe...
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Family-centered policies and practices
Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global context. By including a conceptual framework as well as practice components, the authors offer an original multimodal approach toward understanding family-c...
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Feminist political economy
A much-needed introduction to key topics in feminist political economy, this book takes a global perspective and engages in debates that are relevant for the Global North and/or the Global South. Essential reading for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of power relations in the economy.
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Field notes on democracy
With anger and compassion, Arundhati Roy's new book maps India's turbulent present and possible futures.
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Fighting the wrong enemy
Antiglobalist forces have been gaining greater momentum in recent years in their efforts to reverse what they view as the negative effects of an integrating global economy. Their influence was felt earlier when efforts to create a Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) ended in failure in 199...
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Financial globalization, economic growth, and the crisis of 2007-09
This book examines the role of financial globalization in economic growth and derives corresponding implications for economic policy. Although economists have debated the importance of openness to international trade, they generally agree that in the market for goods, international openness is mo...
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Freedom is a constant struggle
Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.
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From rebellion to reform in bolivia
An accessible, yet insightful, look into the promise, potential, and political contradictions of Evo Morales' first term.
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From the 20th to the 21st century
Unsentimental, rigorous, and newly urgent, From the 20th to the 21st Century demands to be read not as a document of its time, but as a work that clarifies ours—and one that will shape how it is understood.
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Fueling culture
A collection of brief reflections on keywords related to energy, including the various substances and forces with which humans have produced energy, and their past, present, and future implications for values, politics, culture, and environment.
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Gaming the world
The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow th...
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Gastronativism
Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of “gastronativism,” the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a community and who does not. Featuring a wide array of examples from all over the world, this book is a timely, incisive, and lively analysis of how and w...
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Geopolitical challenges to the global influence of western society
Geopolitical Challenges to the Global Influence of Western Society examines complex shifts, exploring how emerging forces, from geopolitical realignments to technological innovations and demographic changes, are redefining global power structures.
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Geopolitics and energy diplomacy in the caspian region
Yunis Gurbanov explores the strategic importance of the Caspian region and how its oil and gas resources could serve as an alternative to conventional suppliers.
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Global entanglements of a man who never traveled
The seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province, yet led a remarkably global life through scholarly activities and globalizing Catholicism. Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world through the lens of Zhu’s life, combining ...
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Global political economy and the modern state system
In this ambitious and masterful polemic ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state-system, its conflicts and transformation
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Global social work in a political context
How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? This book employs a radical perspective to examine international social work. Globalisation had opened up many issues for social work, including how to address global inequalities, the impact of ...
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Globalisation and covid-19
Globalisation and COVID-19 examines how the simultaneous immobilisation of billions created a temporary hold on the mobility which constitutes the very irrigation of globalisation.
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Globalization
"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages. But is this much-discussed phenomenon really an invention of modern times? In...
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Globalization
A systemic account of capitalist globalization, and an elaboration of a socialist alternative.
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Globalization and sustainable development in africa
The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.Few studies of globalization have analyzed its impact on African societies from the viewpoint of sustainable development. This volume answers that need. The essays here contribute to ...
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Globalization and the environment
The articles in this volume examine how the capitalist world-economy impacts the natural world.
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Globalization and the perceptions of american workers
A number of recent events in the United States attest to a "globalization backlash" in opposition to continued liberalization of trade, foreign direct investment, and immigration. This backlash has been commonly characterized as reflecting the interests of small groups whose diverse agendas have ...
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Globalization and the transitional cultures
Nag debates the ideological and rational growth of globalization as a fuel of modernity and analyzes the perspectives of marginalized sections of society, alongside concepts of globalization, communication, and culture, to understand how communication plays an important role in the process of glo...
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Globalization challenged
In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive w...
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Globalization, violence and world governance
International law has failed to promote and protect the rights of society in the face of the neoliberal agenda
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Globalize liberation
A post-9/11 look at the new radicalism that has captured the imagination of activists worldwide.
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Globalizing cultures
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization.
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Governance in the new global disorder
Has globalization made the world ungovernable?
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Has globalization gone far enough?
Scott C. Bradford and Robert Z. Lawrence use the underlying data from purchasing power parity surveys to estimate the potential benefits from fully integrating goods markets among major OECD countries. These data are particularly useful because they are comprehensive, and every effort has been ma...
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Has globalization gone too far?
Globalization is exposing social fissures between those with the education, skills, and mobility to flourish in an unfettered world market—the apparent "winners"—and those without. These apparent "losers" are increasingly anxious about their standards of living and their precarious place in an in...
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Housing and human settlements in a world of change
This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neoliberalism. It explores the outcomes of neoliberal “enabling” ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the d...
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Identity in the shadow of a giant
Co-authored by four high-profile International Relations scholars, this book investigates the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a democratic state. Examining an array of factors that affect identity formation, the authors consider ...
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Imagine there's no country
A new era of globalization, which began in the 1980s, brought about a significant decline in costs of transportation, communication, and production; considerably improved intercountry competitiveness; and broke down trade and cultural barriers among countries. The concept of a sovereign nation ha...
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Imperialism, neoliberalism, and social struggles in latin america
This collection of works by prominent Latin Americanists explores the region's move beyond the neoliberal era
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In service and servitude
In Service and Servitude explores the relationship between contemporary domestic service and the pursuit of the "good life" in an era of global economic transformation. The author offers an interdisciplinary approach to examining the in-migration of foreign domestic workers in Malaysia.The book u...
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Indefensible
A defence of democracy at national and international levels, and critique of attacks on it in the name of ‘anti-imperialism’.
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International migration, covid-19, and environmental sustainability
With contributions from world-renowned scholars, this book tackles recent universal subject matter and ties it to key contemporary issues, including globalisation and sustainability, that are related to international migration and its impacts.
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International policy rules and inequality
An interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars scrutinizes how the rules of global economic governance—or the lack thereof—determine the extent and growth of inequality. With a focus on achievable reforms, this book offers concrete steps capable of counteracting inequitable wealth distribution ...
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International relations theory and the asia-pacific
What will the Asia-Pacific rim look like in the years ahead? What tools will international relations theorists need to understand the complex relationship among China, Japan, and the United States as the three powers shape the economic and political future of this crucial region?Some of the best ...
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Interventions
Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics from Latin America to the Middle East.
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Into the tempest
These ten essays provide a comprehensive introduction and overview of the theory of global capitalism and its application to a wide range of contemporary issues that will be accessible to activists and the general public yet also satisfying for scholars.
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