Bøger i Global Realities serien

Tracing the development of modern Australian society in the global age, this text focuses on key areas, such as settler/indigenous relations, economics and culture since the 1980s, and the effects of the growing diversity caused by globalization.

Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. To understand the legacy of modern militarism, this book presents an overview of post-conflict societies, with an emphasis on the human toll exacted by modern warfare.

By showing how much of what is considered peripheral to urban life is actually critical to it, this book opens up ways for understanding what it is possible to do in cities.

Focuses on how globalization is impacting contemporary Israel, it focuses on two conflicting trends; liberal democracy with a cosmopolitan edge, and ethno-religious traditionalism. This book is an introduction to contemporary Israel and its place in the world.

Spain and Portugal have long histories at the cutting-edge of world relations, managing far-flung empires. The author stresses this historical perspective as he depicts important globalization themes and processes through the important flows and impacts Spain and Portugal have had with many important regions of the world for many centuries.

Seeks to understand how the Philippines has become the world's largest exporter of government-sponsored temporary contract labor and, in the process, has dramatically reshaped both the processes of globalization and also our understanding of globalization as concept.

Along with providing a broad overview of the contemporary Netherlands, this book focuses on how globalization is generating various discourses, cultures, and state policies. It features chapters on soccer culture, religion (and the lack thereof), the media, the welfare state, multiculturalism, and the Netherlands place in the European Union.

By applying globalization theory to detailed accounts of everyday life in an Arab society, this book traces the development of contemporary Morocco. Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed, it provides an introduction to a topical issue in the increasingly globalized world.

Offers a synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland in the past several years. This book explains what this means for traditional Irish culture and society and offers a social portrait of globalizing Ireland.

Combines an analysis of the city's cultures and social forms, as well as the tranformation of the physical city itself, with the broader issues of postcolonialism, transnationalism and economic globalization.

Aims to contextualize Argentina's position within the currents of globalization. This book considers the ways that globalization impacts contemporary Argentina - via regional trading blocs, migration, emerging transnational border regions, and the interests of multinational financial institutions and national elites.