Sociology & Social Policy

This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. _x005F_x000D_..

This title was first published in 2000:  The contents of this text are structured by three sub-themes. Firstly, the internationalization of Europe. This field studies threats and chances of re-institutionalization of nation-state societies and the role of the public sector therein, acknowledging the..

Historical and comparative analysis of how globalisation has affected agrarian societies. Includes contributors from the UN, China and India...

Written by an international group of researchers from the natural and social sciences, Societal and governing responses to Global Change in Marine Systems analyses and appraises societal and governing responses to change, highlighting and explaining similarities and distinctions between successful, ..

Global Cities, Local Streets: Spaces of Everyday Diversity, a cutting edge text/ethnography, reports on the rapidly expanding field of global, urban studies through a unique pairing of 6 teams of urban researchers from around the world. The authors present shopping streets from each city – New York,..

Global Cities, Local Streets: Spaces of Everyday Diversity, a cutting edge text/ethnography, reports on the rapidly expanding field of global, urban studies through a unique pairing of 6 teams of urban researchers from around the world. The authors present shopping streets from each city – New York,..

Global Communications and Political Power..

Global Communications and Political Power..

Explores long simmering conflicts in comparative perspective, including settler colonialism in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book presents studies from across Latin America to take up the challenge of exploring the plurality of social inequalities, examining the operation of multiple forces and the ways in which these bring about asymmetrical relations. Adopting a global perspective, it identifies the structural forc..

Recent developments in finance are raising complex social and ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of the global economy. In this short, compelling book, acclaimed sociologist Robert Holton considers afresh our twenty-first century world of global finance. The book is a brill..