Forthcoming Globalisation Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Is There a Home in Cyberspace?

   The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities

   By Heike Mónika Greschke

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   How is global togetherness possible? How does the availability of the Internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? This book introduces an 'alien people' inhabiting a specific common virtual space in the World Wide Web, while the members of this space - most of them ethnic...

   To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Cultural Hybridity

   Contradictions and Dilemmas

   Edited by Kwok-Bun Chan

   This book brings together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines to interrogate everyday life events in various interpersonal and organizational contexts so as to answer an age-old question: what happens when (carriers of) cultures meet, or, when East meets West? The contributors to this...

   To Be Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Emotions and Human Mobility

   Ethnographies of Movement

   Edited by Maruška Svašek

   This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility. Drawing on findings and theoretical discussions in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics, migration studies, human geography and political science, the authors offer interdisciplinary...

   To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Confronting Capital

   Critique and Engagement in Anthropology

   Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach, Winnie Lem

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward a vital, politically engaged form of scholarship. It advances the understanding of the struggles of ordinary people in the face of capitalist change. In the current economic moment...

   To Be Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Globalization from Below

   The World's Other Economy

   Edited by Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Carlos Alba Vega

   This book explores globalization as actually experienced by most of the world’s people, buying goods from street vendors brought by traders moving past borders and across continents under the radar of the law. The dimensions and practices of ‘globalization from below’ are depicted and analyzed in...

   To Be Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Adolescent Identity

   Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives

   Edited by Bonnie L. Hewlett

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   As our world becomes increasingly permeable, and as human populations are rapidly converging and transitioning within a global interconnectedness, it is vital that we look to, and learn from, those most adept at the adaptation, creation, and contesting of culture: adolescents. This text is designed...

   To Be Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. Transnational Migration and Lifelong Learning

   Global Issues and Perspectives

   Edited by Shibao Guo

   Economic globalization, modern transportation, and advanced communication technologies have greatly enhanced the mobility of people across national boundaries. The resulting demographic, social, and cultural changes create new opportunities for development as well as new challenges for lifelong...

   To Be Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia

   Edited by Gita Rajan, Jigna Desai

   Transnational feminism has been critical to feminist theorizing in the global North over the last few decades. Perhaps due to its broad terminology, transnational feminism can become vague and dislocated, losing its ability to name specific critiques of and responses to empire, race, and...

   To Be Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. Migration in World History

   2nd Edition

   By Patrick Manning

   This fully revised and updated second edition of Migration in World History traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas. Drawing on examples from a wide range of geographical regions and thematic areas, noted world historian...

   To Be Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Chinese Globalization

    Individual Connections and Social Consequence

    By Jiaming Sun

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    This book examines the explicit effects of global connectivity on local culture and society in post-reform mainland China. It focuses on individual level globalization in China and how global socialization impacts local residents’ behaviors, lifestyle, value orientation and the consequence of...

    To Be Published September 14th 2012 by Routledge