Ebook: The Blackwell companion to globalization

Globalization in hard times: contention in the academy and beyond /, What is globalization? /, The cultural construction of neoliberal globalization /, Globalization: the major players /, Globalization today /, Theories of globalization /, Studying globalization: methodological issues /, Cosmopolitanism: a critical theory for the twenty-first century /, The end of globalization?: the implications of migration for state, society and economy /, Globalization and the agrarian world /, Globalization and the environment /, Cities and globalization /, The sociology of global organizations /, Economic globalization: corporations /, Outsourcing: globalization and beyond /, Globalization and consumer culture /, Cultural globalization /, Globalization and ideology /, Media and globalization /, Globalization and information and communications technologies: the case of war /, Political globalization /, Globalisation and public policy /, Religion and globalization /, Globalization and higher education /, Sport and globalization /, The fate of the local /, Public health in a globalizing world: challenges and opportunities /, Globalization and global inequalities: recent trends /, World inequality in the twenty-first century: patterns and tendencies /, Globalization and corruption /, Globalization and sexuality /, War in the era of economic globalization /, Globalization and international terrorism /, Resisting globalization /, The futures of globalization /; Anthony McGrew --, Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White --, Robert J. Antonio --, George M. Thomas --, John Boli and Velina Petrova --, William I. Robinson --, Salvatore Babones --, Ulrich Beck --, Subrahjit Guhathakurta, David Jacobson and Nicholas C. DelSordi --, Philip McMichael --, Steve Yearley --, Michael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma --, Stewart Clegg and Chris Carter --, Peter Dicken --, George Ritzer and Craig Lair --, Douglas J. Goodman --, John Tomlinson --, Manfred B. Steger --, Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce --, Howard Tumber and Frank Webster --, Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford --, Tim Blackman --, Peter Beyer --, Peter Manicas --, David L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger --, Melissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr. --, Farnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach --, Glenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling --, Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran --, Carolyn Warner --, Kathryn Farr --, Gerald Schneider --, Gus Martin --, Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner --, Bryan S. Turner