Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies

ISBN-13: 9780765641267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str.

Eve Walsh Stoddard;John Collins

Opis

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early chapters of the book survey the key concepts and processes of globalization, and take a critical look at its meaning and role. Students are guided through the material with relevant resource boxes and text boxes that support and promote further independent exploration of the topics at hand. The second half of the book features interdisciplinary case studies, each of which focuses on a specific issue, including:

• Global News Media
• Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Property Rights
• NGOs, Humanitarianism, and the Cultural Construction of Global Hierarchy
• Climate Change and Changing Global Imaginaries
• Transnational LGBT Identities
• The Islamic Veil and the Global Politics of Gender
• State, Corporate, or Underground Voices in Global Hip-Hop
• Yoga in America
• Global Solidarity Movements

Spis treści

Part One: Background, Theories, and Contexts 1. What is Global Studies? 2. A History of Globalization 3. Key Concepts and Processes in the Globalization of Culture Part Two: Case Studies 4. Introduction to the Case Studies 5. Global News Media: From the BBC and CNN to Al Jazeera and TeleSUR 6. Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Property Rights 7. NGOs, Humanitarianism, and the Cultural Construction of Global Hierarchy 8. Climate Change and Changing Global Imaginaries 9. Transnational LGBT Identities: Liberation or Westernization? 10. The Islamic Veil and the Global Politics of Gender 11. Keeping It Real: State, Corporate, or Underground Voices in Global Hip-Hop 12. Yoga in America: Competitive Sport or Spiritual Quest? 13. Global Solidarity Movements: Palestine, Tibet, and Beyond 14. Conclusion to Case Studies

O autorze

Eve Stoddard is a professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University. She is the author of Global Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Nation and Positioning Race and Gender in (Post) colonial Plantation Space.

John Collins is a professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University. He is author of Global Palestine and Occupied By Memory: The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of Emergency, as well as co-editor of Collateral Language: A User’s Guide to America’s New War.