Implications of globalisation / edited by Anne Boran and Peter Cox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boran, Anne.

Cox, Peter.

Series:

Issues in the Social Sciences Series ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Congresses.

Globalization.

Globalization--Social aspects--Congresses.

International trade--Congresses.

International trade.

Social change--Congresses.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chester, [England] : Chester Academic Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These papers raise searching questions about the nature and implications of globalisation, exploring some key features in terms of their impacts on nations and people. Three broad themes are highlighted: key players and processes; consequences and impacts; and response and resistance.

Contents:

""Front cover""; ""Title pages""; ""Copyright page""; ""Contents page""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Peadar Kirby - Implications of Globalisation: Present Imperfect, Future Tense?""; ""Robert Frith - Multinational Corporations and the Democratic State: Friend or Foe?""; ""Peter Cox - Globalisation of What? Power, Knowledge and Neocolonialism""; ""David Hall-Matthews - Does Globalisation Make Famines More or Less Likely?""

""Sally Theobald and Rachel Tolhurst - Vicious or Virtuous Cycles? A Gender Equity Perspective on Tuberculosis and HIV in the Context of Globalisation""""Anne Boran - Cross-Border Movement of People: Barriers, Hazards and Health""; ""Giles Mohan - Interdependencies and Development: The African Diaspora and its Contested Obligations to Home""

Notes:

"Papers from a Conference held at University College Chester, November 2003."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 16, 2014).

ISBN:

9781908258748

1908258748