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Globalization: The Key Concepts (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Viewed as a destructive force or an inevitability of modern society, globalization is the focus of a multitude of disciplines. A clear understanding of its processes and terminology is imperative for anyone engaging with this ubiquitous topic. Globalization: the Key Concepts offers a comprehensive guide to this cross-disciplinary subject and covers concepts such as:

• homogenization
• neo-Liberalism
• risk
• knowledge society
• time-space compression
• reflexivity.

With extensive cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading, this book is an essential resource for students and interested readers alike as they navigate the literature on globalization studies.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 1.23MB

Autor

Annabelle Mooney is a Lecturer at Roehampton University. Her research interests include marginal religious movements, the semiotics of law, HIV and quality of life. Betsy Evans is a Research Associate at Cardiff University. Her research interests include language variation and change and attitudes to varieties of language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134204717
• Artikelnr.: 38253773

Rezensionen

'Mooney (Roehampton Univ.) and Evans (Cardiff Univ.) provide a condensed, single volume that defines over 350 key concepts and terms within the field of globalization studies.' -- M. A. LaMagna, Cabrini College, Choice

'The concise entries range in length from single to multiple paragraphs. They represent an important starting point in the study of globalization.'-- M. A. LaMagna, Cabrini College, Choice

'This work is a great alternative to multivolume globalization encyclopedias and should be in every reference collection.'-- M. A. LaMagna, Cabrini College, Choice

'Mooney (Roehampton Univ.) and Evans (Cardiff Univ.) provide a condensed, single volume that defines over 350 key concepts and terms within the field of globalization studies.' -- M. A. LaMagna, Cabrini College, Choice

'The concise entries range in length from single to multiple paragraphs. They represent an important starting point in the study of globalization.'-- M. A. LaMagna, Cabrini College, Choice

'This work is a great alternative to multivolume globalization encyclopedias and should be in every reference collection.'-- M. A. LaMagna, Cabrini College, Choice