Global Futures
Subtitle: Migration, Environment and Globalization (Explorations in Sociology)
Contributors: Avtar Brah (Editor); Mary J. Hickman (Editor); Mairtin Mac an Ghaill (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 16, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780312221355
Subjects: Political Science; Environmental Studies; Politics/International Relations; Emigration & Immigration; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Environmental Science; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Political Science / General; Science-Environmental Science; Social Science-Emigration & Immigration; General; Congresses; Cultural relations; Emigration And Immigration; International Economic Relations; International economic relatio; World politics
Description: "This book provides a critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations. It examines, explores and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization.

Together, the various chapters in this 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."--BOOK JACKET.