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  • The Age of Post-Rationality

    Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century

    by Adrian Flitney, Val Colic-Peisker ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive civilisation. Yet, over the past decades, the dogma of economic rationality has become an ideological black hole whose gravitational pull allows no public debate or policy to escape. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • On Empire

    America, War, and Global Supremacy

    by Eric Hobsbawm ...
    In these four incisive and keenly perceptive essays, one of out most celebrated and respected historians of modern Europe looks at the world situation and some of the major political problems confronting us at the start of the third millennium.With his usual measured and brilliant historical perspective, Eric Hobsbawm traces the rise of American hegemony in the twenty-first century. He examines ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    by Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Upside of Down

    Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West

    by Charles Kenny ...
    America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower -- so goes the conventional wisdom. But what if the traditional measures of national status are no longer as important as they once were? What if America's well-being was assessed according to entirely different factors?In The Upside of Down, Charles Kenny argues that America's so-called decline ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Science and Citizens

    Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

    Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Brian Wynne ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Eurafrica

    The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism

    by Peo Hansen, Professor Stefan Jonsson ...
    Series series Theory for a Global Age Series
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.In order to think theoretically about our global age it is important to understand how the global has been conceived historically. 'Eurafrica' was an intellectual endeavor and political project that from the 1920s saw Europe's future survival - its continued role in ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Expose, Oppose, Propose

    Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice

    by William K. Carroll ...
    Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a hypermarket where money talks. For the majority of people around the globe, this translates as precarity and immiseration. But how can we break from this dominant ideological framework?Expose, Oppose, Propose details how, since the mid 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have functioned as think tanks of a different sort, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Globalization and Development in East Asia

    Edited by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Jongtae Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies
    East Asia is widely regarded as the main "winner" in contemporary globalization, unscathed by the economic crisis of 2008, with its leading new industrializing nations and emerging economies. While 20th-century globalization was mainly led by the West, the 21st century is ushering in different dynamics. The re-emergence of Asia involves alternative visions of the world and different perspectives ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage

    A Neo-Institutional Approach

    Edited by Bronwyn Winter, Maxime Forest, Réjane Sénac ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a comparative, neo-institutionalist approach to the different factors impacting state adoption of—or refusal to adopt—same-sex marriage laws. The now twenty-one countries where lesbians and gay men can legally marry include recent or longstanding democracies, republics and parliamentary monarchies, and unitary and federal states. They all reflect different positions with respect ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Rural America in a Globalizing World

    Problems and Prospects for the 2010's

    by Elizabeth Ransom ...
    Series series Rural Studies
    This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010’s, closely reflecting upon the increasingly global nature of social, cultural, and economic forces and the impact of neoliberal ideology upon policy, politics, and power in rural areas.The chapters in this volume represent the expertise of an influential group of ... Read more

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  • Globalizing Language Policy and Planning

    An Irish Language Perspective

    by Máiréad Moriarty ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The book examines the changing relationship between minority languages and language policy and planning in the context of globalization, through an examination of the Irish language context. It demonstrates how localized practices are involved in the refashioning of the value of the Irish language. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Can Globalization Promote Human Rights?

    by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann ...
    Series series Essays on Human Rights
    Globalization has affected everyone’s lives, and the reactions to it have been mixed. Legal scholars and political scientists tend to emphasize its harmful aspects, while economists tend to emphasize its benefits. Those concerned about human rights have more often been among the critics than among the supporters of globalization. In Can Globalization Promote Human Rights? Rhoda Howard-Hassmann ... Read more

    $22.79 USD