Globalization

The new wave of land grabbing that followed the recent global food crisis has prompted considerable debate about its social, environmental and political consequences. This volume theorizes and empirically investigates efforts to govern land grabs at global and regional level._x000D_ This book was pu..

_x005F_x000D_ This book brings together the work of scholars from different disciplines including sociology, political science and anthropology, and analyses how global institutions are embedded in local contexts within development cooperation. It examines theoretical and empirical implications of t..

The book tackles questions related to the roles that actors within civil society in the underdeveloped world are playing under late capitalism, and how these roles relate to current efforts to establish and extend markets, and market society more broadly, in a neoliberal image. It was originally pub..

Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the political relationship between citizens, civil society, and neoliberal development policy’s latest form. The book tackles questions related to the roles that various actors within civil society in the underdeveloped w..

This book considers the increasing importance of both labour migration and precarious work in our global world. It goes on to ask whether such migrants may become a key component in the social movement emerging to counter globalisation._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Glob..

This book considers the increasing importance of both labour migration and precarious work in our global world. It goes on to ask whether such migrants may become a key component in the social movement emerging to counter globalisation._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Globalizat..

Nationalism and globalisation are two central phenomena of the modern world, that have both shaped and been shaped by each other, yet few connections have been made systematically between the two...

This book explores the many reasons why nationalism still matters and the dangers posed by an overly hasty attempt to turn post national ideals into political practice...

Using the case study of Singapore, this book examines the production of a set of institutionalized relationships and ethical meanings that link citizens to each other and the state. It looks at how questions of culture and morality are resolved, and how state-society relations are established that r..

Using the case study of Singapore, this book examines the production of a set of institutionalized relationships and ethical meanings that link citizens to each other and the state. It looks at how questions of culture and morality are resolved, and how state-society relations are established that r..

Politics and Culture in the Developing World..

Offering new and critical insights on global activism and power, it features case studies on China and Tibet, HIV/AIDS, climate change, child labour, the WTO, women and the UN, the global public sphere, world social forums and global civil society...