Global Futures: Shaping Globalization - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1856498026 ISBN 13 : 9781856498029

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

This is the first book to go beyond globalisation. Its eminent contributors reject a fatalistic stance in the face of the problems that accelerating globalisation is throwing up. Instead, they argue that humanity must make seek to shape globalisation. In a sequence of tightly argued essays, they suggest a variety of innovative perspectives, changes, policies and institutional reforms that we ought to strive for in our increasingly inter-connected world. The exciting range of topics discussed include global governance and democratization; international finance and reform of the world economy; Third World development; the environment; the position of women; poverty and social exclusion; technology and culture; and the future shape of urban growth. Optimistic and inventionist in tone, this book provides a one-stop overview of thinking about global reform. Bristling with ideas, its new angle on globalisation brings together different domains of transformation and different disciplines, looking to a future in which humanity consciously influences, improves and humanises what may otherwise be seen as an impersonal and destructive juggernaut.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His previous publications include Ethnicities and Global Multiculture (2007) and Globalization and Empire (2004). He has previously edited two Zed books Global Futures and The Decolonization of Imagination.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856498026
• ISBN 13: 9781856498029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Pieterse Jan Nederveen
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• Personne responsable: non disponible