Politics and Globalisation: Knowledge, Ethics and Agency Contributor(s): Shaw, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138874361 ISBN-13: 9781138874367 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Non-classifiable - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science |
Dewey: 306 |
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.75 lbs) 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: Globalisation is widely understood as a set of processes driven by technological, economic and cultural change. Few have successfully defined the changing character and role of politics in global change. Political institutions such as the nation-state have been seen as undermined by globalisation, or needing to respond to it. This book clarifies the tensions which global change has provoked in our understanding of politics. Politics and Globalisation suggests that globalisation is a process which is politically contested and even politically constituted. The volume presents five key intellectual and political contests in globalisation: |