Globalisation and Identity (International Library of Human Geography): Development and Integration in a Changing World: v. 9

Globalisation and Identity (International Library of Human Geography): Development and Integration in a Changing World: v. 9

by Alan Carling (Author)

Synopsis

Globalization is often perceived in rather simplistic terms: as a single universal process leading ultimately to global equality and global democracy. The contributors to Globalisation and Identity take a different view. Drawing on their expertise across a variety of disciplines they argue that globalisation is far more complex, a fact reflected in a range of key problems - centred on issues of equality and identity - now facing peoples and governments around the world. How can one successfully integrate immigrant populations within the structures of state and civil society? Is national identity compatible with cultural diversity? What are the contradictions posed in the contemporary world by the movement of populations? How does one integrate state structures and national societies themselves within an emergent international political order and a global civil society? Questions of globalisation and identity are of vital importance to aims of global harmony and global equality and this timely work provides a rich and integrated exploration of many of the key issues.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 298
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 28 Oct 2005

ISBN 10: 185043848X
ISBN 13: 9781850438489

Media Reviews
'A valuable asset on the potential as well as the ills of globalisation, set against the background of real societies.' - Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
Author Bio
Alan Carling is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Bradford.