Globalisation Books

New and Published Books

1. Branding Cities

   Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change

   Edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman, Catherine Kevin

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists. At the same time, the transformation of settled and new...

   Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Local Foods Meet Global Foodways

   Tasting History

   Edited by Benjamin Lawrance, Carolyn de la Peña

   This book explores the intersection of food and foodways from global and local perspectives. The collection contributes to interdisciplinary debates about the role and movement of commodities in the historical and contemporary world. The expert contributions collectively address a fundamental...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Cultural Policy Review of Books

   Edited by Oliver Bennett

   Cultures are shaped by many institutions and agencies, including governments, corporations, education and the media. In recent years, research into these culture-shaping activities has been increasingly associated with the developing field of cultural policy studies. The Cultural Policy Review of...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Alexander von Humboldt's Translantic Personae

   Edited by Vera Kutzinski

   Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin American independence? Was he a roving Romanticist, or did his sensibilities belong to the Enlightenment? Naturalist, philosopher, historian, and...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Amazonian Geographies

   Emerging Identities and Landscapes

   Edited by Jacqueline Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink

   Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
6. Globalisation, Higher Education, the Labour Market and Inequality

   Edited by Antonia Kupfer

   Globalisation, Higher Education, the Labour Market and Inequality addresses the global transformation of higher education in relation to changes in the labour market. It focuses on the relative impact of elements of globalisation on social inequality, and provides insights into the ways in which...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
7. Language in Late Capitalism

   Pride and Profit

   Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Monica Heller

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
8. Cosmopolitan Sociability

   Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks

   Edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller, Sandra Gruner-Domic

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This book approaches the concept of cosmopolitan sociability as a cultural or territorial rootedness that facilitates a simultaneous openness to shared human emotions, experiences, and aspirations. Cosmopolitan Sociability critiques definitions of cosmopolitanism as a tolerance for cultural...

   Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
9. Cultural Studies of Transnationalism

   Edited by Handel Wright, Meaghan Morris

   This book asks what ‘transnationalism’ might mean for Cultural Studies as an intellectual project shaped in vastly differing circumstances across the world. With contributions from scholars with experience of cultural life and the work of education in various regions, countries and locales - from...

   Published September 29th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora

    Revisiting the boat people

    Edited by Yuk Wah Chan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee...

    Published August 23rd 2011 by Routledge