Description
This textbook is designed to introduce students in an accessible and comprehensive way to the contemporary debates surrounding globalization. By emphasising global interdepency the aim of the book is to prepare students to make evaluative judgements about issues in the globalization debate. Divided into three sections on economy, power and space, and people, the book provides a wide ranging introduction to the economic, social and cultural dynamics of globalization. Throughout the book, Professor Sparke makes a distinct argument about what globalization is introducing to the world – ties that bind globally, intergratively and transformatively without oversimplication of the debate into a moral dichotomy. “Globalization: The Ties that Bind” features numerous empirical examples, maps, tables and other illustrations. Each of the ten chapters is followed by notes for further reading and there is an extended bibliography at the back of the book. An appendix at the end fo the book presents a selection of group research plans, each relating to a particular chapter, providing an array of ideas, models and helpful hints for carrying out student-led research.
