Search results for “[Subject: globalization]”

• Author(s): Samir Amin • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • Subject: Economics • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeSamir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-So...

• Author(s): David McDonald • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economic ConditionsAbout the Book After three decades of privatization and anti-state rhetoric, government ownership and public manage...

• Author(s): Mark Duffield • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyIn this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield s...

• Author(s): David Roberts • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: International Relations - Arms ControlThis seminal work is the first fully to engage human security with power in the international system. It presents glob...

• Author(s): Wolfgang Sachs • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Behind the public's hope of effective action by governmen...

• Author(s): Mayke Kaag | Annelies Zoomers • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political EconomyThe last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media int...

• Author(s): John Gaventa • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: GlobalizationGlobalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in...

• Author(s): Martin Khor • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeIn this optimistic book Martin Khor, director of the influential Third World Network, sets out concrete proposals for wha...

• Author(s): Heikki Patomaki • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThe last couple of years have seen the eurozone lurch from crisis to calamity. With Greece, Portugal and Ireland alre...

• Author(s): Benoit Daviron • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeCan developing countries trade their way out of poverty? International trade has grown dramatically in the last two de...

• Author(s): Peggy Antrobus • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Women's StudiesThe spread and consolidation of the women's movement in North and South over the past thirty years looks set to shape the course of social p...

• Author(s): Amit Sengupta • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Health PolicyIn an increasingly globalised world with new cross-border threats to public health and widening dispariti...

• Author(s): Kees Koonings • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesFor the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of u...

• Author(s): Debora Diniz • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Disease & Health IssuesWinner of the 2017 Jabuti Book Prize The Zika virus is devastating lives and communities. Children across the Americas are being b...

• Author(s): James Petras • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: World - GeneralPerhaps no word today is used and misused more than globalization. It generally serves to refer to worldwide epoch-defining changes in the org...

• Author(s): Thomas Lines • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentIn this clear and intelligent book, Thomas Lines examines the role that global policies have played in creating a crisis of...

• Author(s): Siriporn Skrobanek • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Women's StudiesThis moving but unemotional account of the rapidly-expanding international traffic in women reveals it as a global issue. Using original...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Fioramonti • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Economic ConditionsNumbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer ...

• Author(s): Robbie Robertson • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Social PsychologyGlobalization necessitates a new reading of the human story, argues historian Robbie Robertson in this thought-provoking study. Its orig...

• Author(s): Garry Leech • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Political EconomyIn the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessa...

• Author(s): Christa Wichterich • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsGlobalization creates growth without jobs in the North, structural adjustment in the South, privatization in the East a...

• Author(s): Jane Pollard • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Economic ConditionsPostcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of ...

• Author(s): Ann-Christin Sjolander Holland • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Real Estate - General* Privatization of water supplies began in England in 1989 under Margaret Thatcher; in the ten years that followed, ne...

• Author(s): Zillah Eisenstein • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn this exciting and insightful new work, Zillah Eisenstein engages the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a site of new anti-imperial ...

• Author(s): Ha-Joon Chang • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe role of the state in the economy has always been a controversial issue in public debate, but it has become more so in ...

• Author(s): Neil Carrier • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Regional StudiesNigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's...

• Author(s): M. Jean Debeir • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThis stimulating, informative and at times frightening book provides an overall history of energy usage as a fundamental factor in the e...

• Author(s): Nicholas Guyatt • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDid September 11th change everything? Is George W. Bush responsible for America's...

• Author(s): Ha-Joon Chang | Ilene Grabel • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economic ConditionsThere is no alternative to neoliberal economics - or so it appeared when Reclaiming Development was p...

• Author(s): Walden Bello • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Economic ConditionsHow to manage the global economy - and, more fundamentally, whether humanity wishes it to go in an ever more market-oriented, transnationa...

• Author(s): Charlotte Touati • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: World - AfricanLeading Horn of Africa expert Charlotte Touati exposes the role played by Canadian gold mining company Nevsun and other global actors in p...

• Author(s): William F. Fisher • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: GeneralIn 2001 the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The meeting was viewed by many at the time as a new manifestation of the g...

• Author(s): Tim Di Muzio • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Political EconomyWhile the Occupy movement faces many strategic and organizational challenges, one of its major accomplishments has been to draw global atten...

• Author(s): Amory Starr • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: General'Don't Owe! Won't Pay!', 'Get Rid of them All!', 'No Patents on Life!', 'Food Sovereignty', 'Another World is Possible!' ... The struggles against corp...

• Author(s): Ute Roschenthaler • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: GlobalizationTrade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries. Since the end of the Co...

• Author(s): Catherine Alexer • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFor some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is ...