This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations.
Introduces the major players, theories, and methodologies
Explores the major areas of impact, including the environment, cities, outsourcing, consumerism, global media, politics, religion, and public health
Addresses the foremost concerns of global inequality, corruption,...
This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars ...
Examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness. This work tracks journeys between imagined homelands and physical landscapes and presents an argument that through th
Examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness. This work t...
While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, heritage studies and development studies to explore this under-researched sphere of development intervention. In an agenda-setting introduction, the editors explore the seemingly oppositional temporalities and values represented by these "past-making" and "future-making" projects,...
While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between mu...
While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, heritage studies and development studies to explore this under-researched sphere of development intervention. In an agenda-setting introduction, the editors explore the seemingly oppositional temporalities and values represented by these "past-making" and "future-making" projects,...
While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between mu...
We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions - which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose - and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or another but a multiplicity of things at once.
Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, with contributions from material culture specialists across various disciplines, the book showcases a...
We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and...
