The Routledge International Handbook Of Globalization Studies: Second Edition (routledge International Handbooks)

"The second edition of 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 second edition has been completely revised and features important new thinking on themes such as Islamophobia and the globalization of religious conflict, shifts in global energy production such as fracking, global inequalities, fiscal transformations of the state and problems of taxation, globalization and higher education, and an analysis of the general sense of catastrophe that surrounds contemporary understandings of the consequences of a global world"--Provided by publisher. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors PART I Theories and definitions 1 Theories of globalization: issues and origins 2 Limiting theory: rethinking approaches to cultures of globalization 3 Economic theories of globalization 4 Global inequality 5 Internet and globalization 6 Anti-globalization movements: from critiques to alternatives 7 History and hegemony: the United States and twenty-first century globalization 8 Vulnerability and globalization: the social impact of globalization PART II Substantive issues 9 Transformations of the world’s population: the demographic revolution 10 All that is molten freezes again: migration history, globalization, and the politics of newness 11 Climate change, globalization, and carbonization 12 Infectious disease and globalization 13 Globalization and taxation 14 Religion out of place? The globalization of fundamentalism 15 Globalization and Indigenous peoples: new old patterns 16 Genocide in the global age 17 Global elites 18 Globalized higher education 19 The global drive to commodify pensions PART III New institutions and cultures 20 Popular culture, fans, and globalization 21 Islam and globalization: Islamophobia, security and terrorism 22 Global cities 23 Crossing divides: consumption and globalization in history 24 Pluralism, globalization and the “modernization” of gender and sexual relations in Asia 25 Globalization and food: the dialectics of globality and locality 26 Borders, passports, and the global mobility 27 Globalization and Americanization PART IV Critical solutions 28 Globalization and labour: putting the ILO in its places 29 The globalization of human rights 30 Global civil society and the World Social Forum 31 New cosmopolitanism in the social sciences 32 Globalization and its possible futures Index