Cosmopolitanisms explores how social groups find ways of living productively with each other. This book analyzes theoretical approaches and research to give a new understanding of the cultural, personal, moral and legal dimensions of cosmopolitanism. This is a key critical guide to cosmopolitanism for all students of globalization and sociology.
Cosmopolitanisms explores how social groups find ways of living productively with each other. This book analyzes theoretical approaches and r...
Does globalization mean the end of the nation state? Or are nation states able to respond to processes of global change? This impressively comprehensive book examines the connections and conflicts that exist between global and national processes, institutions and cultures.Debating and explaining controversial and contested understandings of globalization, the second edition has new content on: * Hot and timely topics, from human rights and migration to new technologies and environmental sustainability * Connections between globalization and global events, including the rise of China, the...
Does globalization mean the end of the nation state? Or are nation states able to respond to processes of global change? This impressively comprehensi...
Autobiography and Performance offers a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance. Examining the work of key practitioners, Heddon argues that autobiographical performances act as sites of resistance and intervention and uncovers the political potentials and limits that accompany the use of the personal in performance
Autobiography and Performance offers a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance. Examining the work of key practitio...
This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization--political, economic, social and cultural--and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalization is shown neither to be an inexorable process nor one that can be equated simply with Westernization.
This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new...
A broad, multi-disciplinary and up-to-date analysis of the current state of global inequality that draws on major theories and contemporary evidence in order to explain the need for concern about global inequality, to consider the historical trends and causes of global inequality and to question the efficacy of social policy.
A broad, multi-disciplinary and up-to-date analysis of the current state of global inequality that draws on major theories and contemporary evidenc...
