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.
The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An integrated approach
1st Edition
By Ugo Dessi
May 24, 2017
The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An Integrated Approach explores how Japanese religions respond to the relativizing effects of globalization, thereby repositioning themselves as global players. Organized around concrete case studies focusing on the engagement of Japanese Buddhism, ...
Community, Competition and Citizen Science: Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World
1st Edition
By Anne Holohan
November 28, 2016
Voluntary distributed computing projects divide large computational tasks into small pieces of data or work that are sent out over the Internet to be processed by individual users, who participate voluntarily in order to provide solutions that would ordinarily require investments of millions of ...
Reimagining Social Movements: From Collectives to Individuals
1st Edition
Edited
By Antimo L. Farro, Henri Lustiger-Thaler
November 16, 2016
The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, namely resource mobilization, framing, collective identity, and new social movements. It is now, however, ...
Decolonizing European Sociology: Transdisciplinary Approaches
1st Edition
By Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez, Manuela Boatcă, Sérgio Costa
September 30, 2016
Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around themes ...
Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism
1st Edition
By Manuela Boatcă
August 15, 2016
Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism proposes...