Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times

ISBN-13: 9781108470797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 308 str.

Manfred B. Steger; Paul James

Opis

By addressing the major contemporary challenges to globalization, this study explains why and how the global continues to matter in our unsettled world.

Recenzje

'Magnificent. Two of the most seasoned analysts of globalization comprehensively update the history and thoroughly reappraise the theory. A flowing, engaging, compelling case that 'globalization matters'.' Jan Aart Scholte, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden and Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Spis treści

1. Introduction: what is happening to globalization?; 2. Mapping a new genealogy of 'globalization'; 3. Rethinking the dominant framework of globalization theory; 4. Considering the subjective dimensions of globalization; 5. Outlining an engaged theory of globalization; 6. Excavating the long history of globalization; 7. Examining the promise of global studies; 8. Making sense of the populist challenge to globalization; 9. Confronting the global urban imaginary; 10. Living in the unsettled world of the Anthropocene; 11. Concluding reflections; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.