Globalisation Books

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51. Service Work

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Cameron MacDonald, Marek Korczynski

    Everyday, we are bombarded with advertising images of the smiling service worker. The book is written with the aim of focusing beneath the surface of these fairy tale images, to seek out and understand the reality of service workers’ experience. Within the sociology of work and related literatures,...

    Published August 19th 2008 by Routledge
52. Globalizing the Research Imagination

    Edited by Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey

    In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers. They are encouraged to develop 'defiant' global imaginations and communities with the capacities to think, 'be' and 'become' differently in a world of...

    Published August 6th 2008 by Routledge
53. The Diaspora Strikes Back

    Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning

    By Juan Flores

    Series: Cultural Spaces

    In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the...

    Published August 6th 2008 by Routledge
54. Challenging Euro-America's Politics of Identity

    The Return of the Native

    By Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    In this fascinating book, Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes critically examines the impact of colonialism and postcolonial migration on the politics and identity of Euro-American imperial powers. It considers how ‘outsiders’ are part of the construction of the ‘native’ identity of the nation-state,...

    Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge
55. Food and Culture

    A Reader, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Carole Counihan, Penny Van Esterik

    Food touches everything important to people: it marks social difference and strengthens social bonds. Common to all people, it can signify very different things from table to table. Food and Culture takes a global look at the social, symbolic, and political-economic role of food. The stellar...

    Published December 4th 2007 by Routledge
56. The Transnational Studies Reader

    Intersections and Innovations

    Edited by Peggy Levitt, Sanjeev Khagram

    In recent years, 'transnationalism' has become a key analytical concept across the social sciences. While theoretical approaches to the study of global social phenomena have traditionally focused on the nation-state as the central defining framework, transnational studies views social experience as...

    Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge
57. Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia

    Organizing between Family and State

    Edited by Robert P. Weller

    Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller...

    Published August 31st 2007 by Routledge
58. Globalization and Everyday Life

    By Larry Ray

    Series: The New Sociology

    Globalization and Everyday Life provides an accessible account of globalization by developing two themes in particular. First, globalization is an outcome of structural and cultural processes that manifest in different ways in economy, politics, culture and organizations. So the globalized world is...

    Published May 23rd 2007 by Routledge
59. Fair Trade

    The Challenges of Transforming Globalization

    Edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray, John Wilkinson

    This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change. Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South...

    Published May 9th 2007 by Routledge
60. Deciphering the Global

    Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects

    Edited by Saskia Sassen

    Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics....

    Published April 1st 2007 by Routledge