Globalization Reader: Introduction to Global Studies

by John Benyon (Editor), John Benyon

Global studies has become one of the most vigorous subjects in cultural studies and the social sciences. Politics, international capital, revolutions in technology and communication, social and environmental struggles all compel us to study the world as a world. This timely anthology brings together dozens of outstanding scholars including David Harvey, Herbert Schiller, Sherry Turkle, Zillah Eisenstein, David Morley, Bryan S. Turner, Jeremy Rifkin, Elaine Showalter. For readers in the social sciences and the humanities, The Globalization Reader addresses the big issues: communication and global media, political economy, cultural homogeneity and heterogeneity, new technologies, tourism, beliefs, and identity.

400 pages, Paperback

First published May 11, 1999