 | The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies: Second edition Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Environmental Politics; Sociology & Social Policy; Economics; History; Religion; Cultural Studies; International Political Economy; Anthropology - Soc Sci; History of Economic Thought; Social & Cultural History; World Religions; Cultural Theory; Globalization; Globalisation; Historical Sociology; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Science & Technology; Social Theory; The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook examines many negative aspects - new wars, slavery, illegal migration, pollution and inequality - but concludes with an examination of responses to these problems through human rights organizations, international labour law and the growth of cosmopolitanism. There is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches with essays covering sociology, demography, economics, politics, anthropology and history. The second edition has been completely revised and features important new thinking on themes such as Islamophobia and the globalization of religious conflict, shifts in global energy production such as fracking, global inequalities, fiscal transformations of the state and problems of taxation, globalization and higher education, and an analysis of the general sense of catastrophe that surrounds contemporary understandings of the consequences of a global world. Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center at The City University of New York and the Director of the Institute for Religion, Politics and the Society at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne). He published The Religious and the Political (2013). Robert Holton is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology in the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia. |
