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1st Edition

Globalization: The Career of a Concept

Edited By Manfred Steger, Paul James Copyright 2015
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge
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One of the keywords of our time, ‘globalization’ frames how we understand our interconnected world. An ambiguous signifier carrying multiple meanings, the term is usually used to refer to the extension and intensification of social relations across the world. Many works have been authored that deal with various aspects of globalization. However, it is surprising that no critical history of the... Read more

1. A Genealogy of ‘Globalization’ - The Career of a Concept

Paul James and Manfred B. Steger

Interviews

2. George Modelski

3. Roland Robertson

4. Saskia Sassen

5. Joseph E. Stiglitz

6. Arjun Appadurai

7. David Held

8. Jan Aart Scholte

9. Jonathan Friedman

10. Nayan Chanda

11. Mark Juergensmeyer

12. James H. Mittelman

13. Barry K. Gills

Biography

Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Honolulu, USA, and Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the US State Department and is the author or editor of over twenty books on globalization and the history of political ideas.

Paul James is Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity at the University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia, and Research Director of Global Reconciliation, an international organization based in Australia. A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (London), James has delivered invited addresses in over thirty countries and is author or editor of 26 books.

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