Matthew Sparke

Introducing Globalization (eBook, ePUB)

Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners. * Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependency * Examines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of transnational corporations and global commodity chains, to global health challenges and policies, to issues of worker solidarity and global labor markets, through to emerging forms of global mobility by both business elites and their critics * Written by an award-winning teacher, and enhanced throughout by numerous empirical examples, maps, tables, an extended bibliography, glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading and student research * Supported by additional web resources - available upon publication at href="http://www.wiley.com/go/sparke">www.wiley.com/go/sparke - including hot links to news reports, examples of globalization and other illustrative sites, and archived examples of student projects Engage with fellow readers of Introducing Globalization on the book's Facebook page at href="http://www.facebook.com/IntroducingGlobalization">www.facebook.com/IntroducingGlobalization, or learn more about this topic by enrolling in the free Coursera course Globalization and You at href="https://www.coursera.org/course/globalization">www.coursera.org/course/globalization

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118241110
• Artikelnr.: 38230106

Autorenporträt

Matthew Sparke is Professor of Geography and International Studies at the University of Washington, where he also serves as the Director of the undergraduate program in Global Health.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures vii

List of Tables ix

Preface xi

1 Globalization 1

2 Discourse 27

3 Commodities 57

4 Labor 99

5 Money 139

6 Law 181

7 Governance 227

8 Space 279

9 Health 337

10 Responses 389

Glossary 417

Index 473

Rezensionen

"Sparke models inquiry into taken-for-granted concepts or events through rich understanding and questioning. More importantly, he reframes spatial theory as the starting point of social studies conversations about globalization. Rather than accept the inevitability of globalization, he depicts the inevitability of inequity. He examines how inequities become actualized in lives through geopolitical and geoeconomic infrastructure. He encourages us to reconsider the relationships between disciplines, contending that disciplined inquiry enables simplistic understanding. He allows geography and spatial theory to be a way of understanding the world, a lens that resonates across the social studies. The book importantly segments a variety of explanatory moments to allow readers without a strong economics background to understand economic principles. It is a lack of economic understanding that makes global policy discussions unintelligible to the general public. In the process, he ultimately constructs the globally minded citizen. While his brand of global thinking (and citizenship) has a problematic Western perspective, it also utilizes a critical lens that requires awareness of these contradictions and their implications for ourselves and others. The spatial thinking highlighted throughout this review relies on thinking across the disciplines to attend to how, where, and why places are constructed independently and interdependently across scales and time. Rather than assuming that places are knowable, rejecting the three myths encourages questions about what has been made invisible, how new places come to exist, the kinds of interactions that occur therein, and how they reify and amend cultural and other discourses." (Theory & Research in Social Education, 19 February 2015)

"Finally, a globalization text that takes its subjectseriously yet simultaneously explores the myths that surround it.Matt Sparke relates the two 'levels' or ways ofthinking about globalization as a material phenomenon and as apolitical project. This not only makes for a refreshingly noveltake on globalization, one that other introductory books manifestlyfail to achieve as they go one way or the other... it does so in anaccessible manner."--John Agnew,UCLA

"This text is written by an extremely well qualifiedgeographer who has experienced globalization in all itsmulti-faceted dimensions and has taught generations of his studentsabout its inherent tensions and divisions. Its coverage isextensive and yet detailed; its well-researched content constantlychallenges us to think critically about globalization; and itsend-of-chapter exercises are great fun to work with. These are allthe hallmarks of a superb text. I recommend itwholeheartedly!"--Henry Yeung, National Universityof Singapore

"Written with passion, lucidity, and rigor, [this is a]rare text, making accessible to a generation of globally-orientedstudents the complex and urgent debates about globalization and theempirical and analytical research that can inform suchdebates."--Ananya Roy, University of California,Berkeley