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Global Futures

Migration, Environment and Globalization

Mairtin Mac An Ghaill editor M Hickman editor M Mac an Ghaill editor A Brah editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:12th Aug '99

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Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization.Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization. Together, the various chapters in the collection offer a wide-ranging critique of those accounts which represent globalization primarily, if not exclusively, as the classic story of European modernity with its attendant narratives of ostensibly unfettered movement of people, unmitigated economic growth and social progress.

ISBN: 9780312221355

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 475g

243 pages

1999 ed.