Introducing Globalization

Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-631-23129-5
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 508 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 867 g

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners.
* Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependency
* Examines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of transnational corporations and global commodity chains, to global health challenges and policies, to issues of worker solidarity and global labor markets, through to emerging forms of global mobility by both business elites and their critics
* Written by an award-winning teacher, and enhanced throughout by numerous empirical examples, maps, tables, an extended bibliography, glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading and student research
* Supported by additional web resources - available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/sparke - including hot links to news reports, examples of globalization and other illustrative sites, and archived examples of student projects

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Sparke, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Wirtschaftsgeologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

1 Globalization

2 Discourse

3 Commodities

4 Labor

5 Money

6 Law

7 Governance

8 Space

9 Health

10 Responses

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Sparke is Professor of Geography and International Studies at the University of Washington, where he also serves as the Director of the undergraduate program in Global Health. He has authored over 60 scholarly publications, including the book In the Space of Theory (2005), but he is also dedicated to teaching about globalization as well as writing about it. He has multiple awards for his work as a teacher, including the lifetime Distinguished Teaching award from the University of Washington.