ISBN : 9780199338467
The Global Studies Reader, Second Edition, offers an accessible introduction to globalization that will provide students with a better understanding of what constitutes Global Studies-the transdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of globalization. Thus, the book has been carefully designed to provide a representative selection of transdisciplinary writings appropriate for undergraduate students in Global Studies. This book brings together in a single volume some of the best pieces on the subject written by recognized scholars. These twenty seminal contributions have been kept to an easily digestible length while at the same time covering the major dimensions of globalization: politics and societies; economies and technologies; cultures and histories; and spaces and environments. Although The Global Studies Reader purposely contains no additional sectional introductions that might interrupt the conceptual flow of the writings, it offers at the end of each of its four parts five discussion points designed to help clarify the authors' arguments and to stimulate further conversation. You will also find suggestions for additional readings and recommended websites to guide students' further research.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Global Studies?
PART I: POLITICS & SOCIETIES
1. Five Meanings of Global Civil Society
Mary Kaldor
2. Framing Global Governance, Five Gaps
Ramesh Thakur and Thomas G. Weiss
3. Political Ideologies in the Age of Globalization
Manfred B. Steger
4. Globalization and the Emergence of World Social Forums
Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Donatella della Porta, Rosalba Icaza Garza, Jeffrey S. Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Peter (Jay) Smith, and Rolando Vasquez
5. Global Media, Mobilization, and Revolution: The Arab Spring
Hans Schattle
Discussion Points & Guide to Further Readings and Recommended Websites
PART II: ECONOMIES & TECHNOLOGIES
6. How Small Entrepreneurs Clothe East Africa with Old American T-Shirts
Pietra Rivoli
7. The Specter that Haunts the Global Economy: The Challenge of Global Feminism
Valentine Moghadam
8. Designing Capitalism 3.0
Dani Rodrik
9. The Global Network Society
Manuel Castells
10. The Googlization of Us: Universal Surveillance and Infrastructural Imperialism
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Discussion Points & Guide to Further Readings and Recommended Websites
PART III: CULTURES & HISTORIES
11. Globalization: Long Term Process or New Era in Human Affairs?
William H. McNeill
12. Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses
Nayan Chanda
13. Culture: The Glocal Game, Cosmopolitanism and Americanization
Richard Giulanotti and Roland Robertson
14. The American Global Cultural Brand
Lane Crothers
15. The Religion Market
Olivier Roy
Discussion Points & Guide to Further Readings and Recommended Websites
PART IV: SPACES & ENVIROMENTS
16. The Urban Climacteric
Mike Davis
17. The Improbable Life of an Urban Patch: Deciphering the Hidden Logic of Global Urban Growth
Jeb Brugmann
18. Mobile Global Citizens
Luis Cabrera
19. An Overheated Planet
Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley
20. The One-Degree War
Paul Gilding
Discussion Points & Guide to Further Readings and Recommended Websites
Index
