Globalization, 3rd edition Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

This fully revised and updated textbook focuses on the major topics of globalization today.? These include the impact of migration, relations between the northern and southern hemispheres, how gender and power plays into the globalization process, and the politics and economics of freedom of movement in the world. Two new chapters on the impact of technology on global communications and the effect of the emerging economies of India and China bring the book fully up to date.? Further current issues such as the debate concerning environmental security, natural disasters, the broad spectrum between women's empowering impact in the marketplace and the continued exploitation of women in the sex and service trade are also examined. Eleanor Kofman and Gillian Youngs have edited an excellent and comprehensive collection essential for both undergraduate and graduate students trying to gain an understanding of theories and practices driving globalization as we enter into the twenty-first century.

Part 1. Globalization, international relations and political geography
1. Political geography and globalization as we enter the twenty-first century2. Globalization and the emerging economies: China and IndiaPart 2. North-South debates3. Globalization, geography and environmental security4. Rethinking the geopolitics of the global: the case of North-South relations5. Globalizing forces and natural disasters6. Social movements and global politics7. Development hegemonies and local outcomes
Part 3. Gender, power and global processes
8. Shifting grounds, remapping strategies and triad analytics
9. Gender inequalities and feminist politics in a global perspective
10. The places of women in trading places revisited
11. International sex and service
Part 4. Politics and economics of movement and space
12. Crisis? What crisis? The politcs of migration regulation in the era of globalization
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