Global Connections
About the Book Series
Global Connections builds on the multi-dimensional and continuously expanding interest in globalization, focusing on 'connectedness' and providing accessible, concrete studies across a broad range of areas such as social and cultural life, and economic, political and technological activities. Interdisciplinary in approach, the series moves beyond abstract generalities and stereotypes: 'Global' is considered in the broadest sense of the word, embracing connections between different nations, regions and localities, including activities that are trans-national, and trans-local in scope; 'connections' refers to movements of people, ideas, resources, and all forms of communication as well as the opportunities and constraints faced in making, engaging with, and sometimes resisting globalization.
A Glocal Town: Social Change and Globalization
1st Edition
By Nicholas Tatsis
June 30, 2025
This book presents a novel theoretical and methodological approach to understanding the emerging “glocal” realities of (sub)urban space. Beginning with a study of a suburb of Athens, it illustrates the dynamic interaction between the local and the global, charting a range of radical social changes ...
Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination: Artists as Political Agents
1st Edition
By Maria Rovisco
February 13, 2025
Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents. Do artists play a role in civil society? Can artists “make a difference” in the world? In what ways do artists act politically? To address ...
Public Space Democracy: Performative, Visual and Normative Dimensions of Politics in a Global Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Nilüfer Göle
September 25, 2023
This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public memory and public art, ...
China and Globalization in the Amazon: Workers, Expatriates, and the Chinese Production Model
1st Edition
By Cleiton Maciel Brito
December 30, 2022
China and Globalization in the Amazon examines Chinese investment in the Global South, with particular attention to industrial activity in Latin America. Based on ethnographic work conducted in several Chinese factories in the Amazon region of Brazil, whether private, partially private, or ...
Teaching Practices in a Global Learning Environment: An Interdisciplinary Take on International Education
1st Edition
By Hanne Tange
April 29, 2022
This book examines teaching practices in international education, focusing on two significant meanings of the notion of ‘practice’: the concrete activities used by university lecturers and the role of education as a platform for transferring particular skills or approaches. In addition to ...
Global Exposure in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Microglobalization
1st Edition
By Ming-Chang Tsai
June 30, 2021
In contrast to speculative, sweeping literature on globalization Global Exposure in East Asia grounds globalization theories in a detailed empirical analysis, providing a systematic investigation of what until now have been grand narratives of huge global phenomena. This book presents a micro-level...
Eurocentrism at the Margins: Encounters, Critics and Going Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Lutfi Sunar
June 30, 2020
Eurocentrism remains a prevailing feature of Western-dominated social scientific perspectives, tending to ignore alternative views originating outside the West and thus maintaining a form of scholarly hegemony. As such, there is an urgent need to reconsider Eurocentrism in social science, to ask ...
Glocal Pharma: International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity
1st Edition
By Ericka Johnson, Ebba Sjögren, Cecilia Åsberg
June 30, 2020
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. An exploration of how global pharmaceutical products are localized - of what happens when they become ‘glocal’ - ...
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate
2nd Edition
Edited
By Sanja Bahun, V.G. Julie Rajan
June 30, 2020
Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics. The volume hosts methodologically and disciplinarily diverse contributions from around the ...
Global Culture: Consciousness and Connectivity
1st Edition
By Roland Robertson, Didem Buhari-Gulmez
August 14, 2018
The current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the great neglect of the issues of global culture and global consciousness. With contemporary worldwide culture increasingly characterized by such themes as ...
The Socio-Political Practice of Human Rights: Between the Universal and the Particular
1st Edition
By Kiran Kaur Grewal
August 14, 2018
This book examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international human rights framework and different actors seeking political and social change. Presenting detailed new case studies from Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and ...
Civilized Rebels: An Inside Story of the West’s Retreat from Global Power
1st Edition
By Dennis Smith
May 14, 2018
Civilized Rebels compares in depth four very well-known literary and political figures, who all opposed arrogant regimes and became prisoners. Through comparative biographies of Oscar Wilde, Jean Améry, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, it explores the long-term process of the retreat of the ...