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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779738703321

Autore

Coleman William D (William Donald), <1950->

Titolo

Fifty key thinkers on globalization / / William D. Coleman and Alina Sajed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-16393-X

0-415-55932-4

0-203-08005-X

1-136-16394-8

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages)

Collana

Routledge key guides

Classificazione

POL000000POL033000SOC026000

Disciplina

303.48/20922

Soggetti

Globalization

Globalization - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Janet Abu-Lughod -- Samir Amin -- Arjun Appadurai -- Giovanni Arrighi; Zygmunt Bauman -- Ulrich Beck -- Walden F. Bello -- Fernand Braudel -- Neil Brenner -- Manuel Castells -- Philip G. Cerny -- Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Rey Chow -- John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Robert W. Cox -- Arif Dirlik -- Arturo Escobar -- Richard A. Falk -- Anthony Giddens -- Ulf Hannerz -- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- David Harvey -- David Held -- Eric Helleiner -- Paul Hirst, Grahame Thompson and Simon Bromley -- A. G. Hopkins -- Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann -- Naomi Klein -- Kelley Lee -- Anne McClintock -- Walter D. Mignolo -- Aihwa Ong -- Roland Robertson -- Dani Rodrik -- James N. Rosenau -- Arundhati Roy -- John Ruggie -- Edward Said -- Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Saskia Sassen -- Jan Aart Scholte -- Amartya Sen -- Vandana Shiva -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Joseph Stiglitz -- Susan Strange -- Peter J. Taylor -- John Tomlinson -- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Linda Weiss.

Sommario/riassunto

"Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing field. The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of 50 of the most important theorists



of globalization including: - Manuel Castells - Amartya Sen - Zygmunt Bauman - Jan Aart Scholte Each thinker's contribution to the field is evaluated and assessed, and each entry includes a helpful guide to further reading. Fully cross-referenced throughout, this remarkable reference guide is essential reading for students of politics and international relations, economics, sociology, history, anthropology and literary studies."--