Globalisation Books

New and Published Books

1. Globalization and Transformations of Local Socioeconomic Practices

   Edited by Ulrike Schuerkens

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This innovative volume provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation of socio-economic practices in the global economy. The contributors offer analytical and comparative insights at the world level, with regard to the current socio-economic practices as well as an assessment of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. African Minorities in the New World

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Global Health Care Chain

   From the Pacific to the World

   By John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the consequences of the migration of health workers...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Local Cells, Global Science

   The Rise of Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India

   By Aditya Bharadwaj, Peter Glasner

   Series: Genetics and Society

   One of the first studies of an exciting new development in global biotechnology, this cutting edge text examines the extent of the transnational movements of tissues, stem cells, and expertise, in the developing governance framework of India. Documenting the impact of local and global governance...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Rethinking Global Urbanism

   Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities

   Edited by Xiangming Chen, Ahmed Kanna

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. Beyond Methodological Nationalism

   Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies

   Edited by Anna Amelina, Devrimsel D. Nergiz, Thomas Faist, Nina Glick Schiller

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history. While cross-border studies have expanded, the critique on nation-centered research lens has also grown. This book revisits drawbacks of...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
7. Handbook of Cultural Sociology

   Edited by John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, Ming-cheng Lo

   The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Trans-Atlantic Migration

   The Paradoxes of Exile

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. China and Globalization

   The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, 3rd Edition

   By Doug Guthrie

   Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Surviving Dictatorship

    A Work of Visual Sociology

    By Jacqueline Adams

    Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

    Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

    Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge