Global and Local Football

Politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU

By Gary Armstrong, Jon P. MitchellJennifer HargreavesIan McDonald

What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture...

Published April 1st 2008 by Routledge.

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Cultures of Globalization

Coherence, Hybridity, Contestation

Edited by Kevin Archer, M. Martin Bosman, M. Mark Amen, Ella Schmidt

Much has been written about the economic and political implications of the contemporary process of globalization. Much less has been written about the specific cultural...

Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge.

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New Perspectives on Gender and Migration

Livelihood, Rights and Entitlements

By Nicola Piper

This book discusses recent theoretical and empirical developments in international migration from a gender perspective. Its main objective is to analyse the diversification and stratification...

Published October 12th 2007 by Routledge.

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Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos

By Boike Rehbein

Incorporating original fieldwork carried out over a period of more than ten years, combined with innovative theoretical argument, Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos presents...

Published August 8th 2007 by Routledge.

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Globalization and Everyday Life

By Larry Ray

Globalization and Everyday Life provides an accessible account of globalization by developing two themes in particular. First, globalization is an outcome of structural and cultural...

Published May 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Deciphering the Global

Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects

Edited by Saskia Sassen

Published April 2nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Complexity and Social Movements

Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos

By Graeme Chesters, Ian Welsh

Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory...

Published March 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

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Global Nomads

Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza (Spain) and Goa (India)

By Anthony D'Andrea

Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of...

Published December 21st 2006 by Routledge.

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Global Economy, Global Justice

Theoretical and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism

By George DeMartino

This text presents a devastating critique of the currently fashionable idea of globalisation. Using comprehensive and non-technical language this book looks at the world's cultural...

Published December 23rd 1999 by Routledge.

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World Hunger

By Liz Young

World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agricultural production increases and genetic engineering revolutionises food...

Published May 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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