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| Author | : Steven Yearley |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1996-04-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780803975170 |
This authoritative book brings together the sociologies of globalization and the environment in one volume. Steven Yearley argues that environmental issues have received scant attention in the general debate on globalization even though environmentalists have been very successful in capturing the language and imagery of the globe.
| Author | : Steven Yearley |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 1996-04-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0857022830 |
This authoritative book brings together the sociologies of globalization and the environment in one volume. Steven Yearley argues that environmental issues have received scant attention in the general debate on globalization even though environmentalists have been very successful in capturing the language and imagery of the globe.
| Author | : A. Brah |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 1999-04-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0230378536 |
Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization. Together, the various chapters in the collection offer a wide-ranging critique of those accounts which represent globalization primarily, if not exclusively, as the classic story of European modernity with its attendant narratives of ostensibly unfettered movement of people, unmitigated economic growth and social progress.
| Author | : Luke Martell |
| Publisher | : Polity |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2010-03-08 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0745636748 |
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes p. vi Introduction: Concepts of Globalization p. 1 1 Perspectives on Globalization: Divergence or Convergence? p. 19 2 The History of Globalization: Pre-modern, Modern or Postmodern? p. 43 3 Technology, Economy and the Globalization of Culture p. 67 4 The Globalization of Culture: Homogeneous or Hybrid? p. 89 5 Global Migration: Inequality and History p. 105 6 The Effects of Migration: Is Migration a Problem or a Solution? p. 120 7 The Global Economy: Capitalism and the Economic Bases of Globalization p. 135 8 Global Inequality: Is Globalization a Solution to World Poverty? p. 159 9 Politics, the State and Globalization: The End of the Nation-state and Social Democracy? p. 188 10 Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Democracy p. 214 11 Anti-globalization and Global Justice Movements p. 239 12 The Future World Order: The Decline of American Power? p. 259 13 War and Globalization p. 287 Conclusion p. 310 Acknowledgements p. 316 References p. 317 Index.
| Author | : Greg Guest |
| Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780759105812 |
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. They explore the destabilizing impact of globalization on the planet's ecology, and on the health of the human populations that are dependent on the delicate global bionetwork. Their timely case studies describe the cultural adaptations of indigenous populations to their changing environments, evaluating their technological and global political-economic processes. The authors analyze local and global public health strategies, examine the association between globalization and demographies, and offer creative solutions for future health policies. This book will be a valuable resource for professionals in international health, medical anthropology, sociology and geography, environmental studies, and globalization studies.
| Author | : Gert Spaargaren |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2000-06-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1446264904 |
This accomplished book argues that we can only make sense of environmental issues if we consider them as part of a more encompassing process of social transformation. It asks whether there is an emerging consensus between social scientists on the central issues in the debate on environmental change, and if concerns about the environment constitute a major prop to the process of globalization? The book provides a thorough discussion of the central themes in environmental sociology, identifying two traditions: ecological modernization theory and risk society theory.
| Author | : Arthur P. J. Mol |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780262632843 |
A balanced look at globalization and its potential environmental effects, both destructive and beneficial.
| Author | : Hans Günter Brauch |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 1141 |
| Release | : 2008-01-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3540759778 |
Put quite simply, the twin impacts of globalization and environmental degradation pose new security dangers and concerns. In this new work on global security thinking, 91 authors from five continents and many disciplines, from science and practice, assess the worldwide reassessment of the meaning of security triggered by the end of the Cold War and globalization, as well as the multifarious impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century.
| Author | : Patrick D Murphy |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2017-03-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0252099583 |
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's many distinct, competing, and even antagonistic environmental discourses. The media draws the cultural boundaries of our environmental imagination--and influences just who benefits. Murphy's analysis emphasizes social context, institutional alignments, and commercial media's ways of rendering discussion. He identifies and examines key terms, phrases, and metaphors as well as the ways consumers are presented with ideas like agency and the place of nature. What emerges is the link between pervasive messaging and an "environment" conjured by our media-saturated social imagination. As the author shows, today's complex, integrated media networks shape, frame, and deliver many of our underlying ideas about the environment. Increasingly--and ominously--individuals and communities experience these ideas not only in the developed world but in the increasingly consumption-oriented Global South.
