Global social change
Subtitle: historical and comparative perspectives
By: edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones.
Contributors: Chase-Dunn, Christopher K.; Babones, Salvatore J.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: Social change; Globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to global social change / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones; title: Conducting global social research / Salvatore J. Babones; title: What is globalization?; title: Global social change in the long run / Thomas D. Hall, Christopher K. Chase-Dunn; title: Competing conceptions of globalization / Leslie Sklair; title: Globalization : a world-systems perspective / Christopher K. Chase-Dunn; title: Global inequality; title: Global inequality : an introduction / Jonathan H. Turner, Salvatore J. Babones; title: Global energy inequalities : exploring the long-term implications / Bruce Podobnik; title: Globalization and the environment; title: Ecosystems and world systems : accumulation as an ecological process / Alf Hornborg; title: Global social change, natural resource consumption, and environmental degradation / Andrew W. Jorgenson; title: Globalization, hegemony, and global governance; title: Spatial and other "fixes" of historical capitalism / Giovanni Arrighi; title: Contemporary intra-core relations and world systems theory / Peter Gowan; title: Global social movements; title: Gender and globalization : female labor and women's mobilization / Valentine M. Moghadam; title: Environmentalism & the trajectory of the anti-corporate globalization movement / Frederick H. Buttel, Kenneth A. Gould; title: National and global foundations of global civil society / Jackie Smith, Dawn Wiest; title: Transnational social movements and democratic socialist parties in the semiperiphery : on to global democracy / Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn; title: Globalization and the future of democracy / John Markoff.