Tài liệu The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies

The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook examines many negative aspects – new wars, slavery, illegal migration, pollution and inequality – but concludes with an examination of responses to these problems through human rights organizations, international labour law and the growth of cosmopolitanism. There is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches with essays covering sociology, demography, economics, politics, anthropology and history.
The Handbook written in a clear and direct style will appeal to a wide audience. The extensive references and sources will direct students to areas of further study.


Editorial Reviews

Review

Bryan Turner is one of today’s most creative social scientists and it is a treat for the reader that he now has turned his attention also to globalization. The topics that are discussed in this work are all extremely well chosen and cover everything from economics, internet and politics to the climate, Human Rights and the spread of infectious diseases. The Handbook of Globalization Studies is a must for everybody who wants to better understand the contemporary world as well as for every library that wants to serve and educate its visitors. - Professor Richard Swedberg, Cornell University, USA

This volume provides a valuable overview of contemporary discussions of globalization and what exactly the term means. Bryan Turner's introduction surveys the relevant debates with breadth and sobriety, calling into question some of the reigning shibboleths about this much-discussed but little-understood buzzword of our times. The volume will be useful to the specialist and the student alike. - Professor John Torpey, City University of New York Graduate Center, USA
The Handbook of Globalization Studies makes a significant contribution to the widely discussed theme of globalization. Bryan Turner has skilfully brought together a variety of scholars from a broad range of social science disciplines, and the reader will be impressed by the rich and insightful arguments that emerge from this diverse range of perspectives. - Professor Mohamed Cherkaoui, CNRS and University of Paris Sorbonne
It is a timely, well puttogether compendium with an index incorporating key words and authors. - Linda Low, Department of Economic Development, Abu Dhabi Government and University of United Arab Emirates.


About the Author

Bryan S. Turner was Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge (1998–2005) and at the National University of Singapore (2005–09). He is currently the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College USA and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published The New Medical Sociology (2004) and The Body & Society (2008).


Contents

Part I: Theories and definitions 1
1 Theories of globalization: issues and origins 3
2 Limiting theory: rethinking approaches to cultures of globalization 23
3 Economic theories of globalization 42
4 Internet and globalization 62
5 Anti-globalization movements: from critiques to alternatives 77
6 History and hegemony: the United States and twenty-first century globalization 96
7 Vulnerability and globalization: the social impact of globalization 114

Part II: Substantive issues 135
8 Transformations of the world’s population: the demographic revolution 137
9 All that is molten freezes again: migration history, globalization, and the
politics of newness 162
10 Climate change, globalization, and carbonization 182
11 Infectious disease and globalization 205
12 Globalization, disasters, and disaster response 227
13 The globalization of crime 245
14 Religion out of place? The Globalization of fundamentalism 269
15 Globalization and Indigenous peoples: new old patterns 287
16 Genocide in the global age 312
17 Global elites 328
18 Globalization, ethnic conflict, and nationalism 346
19 The global drive to commodify pensions 367

Part III: New institutions and cultures 393
20 Popular culture, fans, and globalization 395
21 Film and globalization: from Hollywood to Bollywood 412
22 Global cities 429
23 Crossing divides: consumption and globalization in history 447
24 Pluralism, globalization, and the “modernization” of gender and sexual relations in Asia 470
25 Globalization and food: the dialectics of globality and locality 492
26 Borders, passports, and the global mobility 514
27 Globalization of space: from the global to the galactic 531
28 Globalization and Americanization 554

Part IV: Critical solutions 569
29 Globalization and labour: putting the ILO in its place 571
30 The globalization of human rights 589
31 Global civil society and the World Social Forum 604
32 Muslim cosmopolitanism: contemporary practice and social theory 622
33 New cosmopolitanism in the social sciences 635
34 Globalization and its possible futures 653