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For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world’s population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics
Addresses the potential of diverse Latino/a spiritualities, origins, and status against the landscape of decolonization of the US economic and cultural empire in the twenty-first century. This book explores the impact of Indo-latinos and Afro-latinos in the United States.
This book considers the efficacy of transitional justice mechanisms in response to corporate human rights abuses.
This book explores how culture, politics, and ideology help shape market incentives in an attempt to reclaim the language of economic rationality and the policymaking legitimacy that accompanies it.
The contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements.
In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal.
The increasing interaction of multinational corporations, international organizations and transnational interest groups, such as Greenpeace and Amnesty International are analyzed in relation to the global political economy.
This book reveals the key dimensions of Japanese globalisation today by analysing both its inward and outward manifestations. This is the first book to examine fully the issue of globalisation in relation to Japan.
The impact of globalization on the environment is a much debated issue. Using case-studies from Latin America, this book sets out these debates and presents new empirical evidence on the key questions.
This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century.
This book is one of the first studies of how the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'knowledge bank'.
Michael Cronin's critical exploration of the ways in which radical changes to the world economy have affected contemporary translation is invaluable reading for anyone who is concerned about the future of our world's languages and cultures.