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Author:   Barrie Axford (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032056302

ISBN 10:   1032056304
Pages:   132
Publication Date:   25 November 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction 1. A modest proposal: global theory for tough – and not so tough – times 2. What was globalization? 3. Eurasian globalization: past and present 4. Coloniality and globalization: a decolonial take 5. Green- or rose-coloured lenses for Globalization Matters? Transdisciplinary epistemic practices and paradigmatic transformations in ecologies and equalities 6. Glocal as hybridity, hegemony and reflexive engagement 7. Humanity for itself? Reflections on climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic 8. The new conceptual vocabulary of the social sciences: the ‘globalization debates’ in context 9. The human development and capabilities approach as a twenty-first century ideology of globalization 10. How to theorize globalization: a comment 11. Globalization in question: why does engaged theory matter?

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Barrie Axford is Professor Emeritus in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, where he was founding director of the Centre for Global Politics, Economy and Society (GPES). His books include The Global System, Theories of Globalization, The World-Making Power of New Media: Mere Connection? and Populism Versus the New Globalization.

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