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Textbook
Introducing Globalization - Ties, Tensions, and Uneven IntegrationFebruary 2013, ©2012, Wiley-Blackwell
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Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners.
- Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependency
- Examines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of transnational corporations and global commodity chains, to global health challenges and policies, to issues of worker solidarity and global labor markets, through to emerging forms of global mobility by both business elites and their critics
- Written by an award-winning teacher, and enhanced throughout by numerous empirical examples, maps, tables, an extended bibliography, glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading and student research
- Supported by additional web resources – available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/sparke – including hot links to news reports, examples of globalization and other illustrative sites, and archived examples of student projects
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1 Globalization
2 Discourse
3 Commodities
4 Labor
5 Money
6 Law
7 Governance
8 Space
9 Health
10 Responses
Glossary
Index
- Introduces students to the contemporary debates surrounding globalization
- Features numerous empirical examples, maps, tables, and other illustrations
- Each chapter is followed by suggestions for further reading and student research
- A helpful extended bibliography and glossary of key terms
- Accompanying website with hot links to news report examples of globalization and other illustrative sites, as well as archived examples of student work projects
“Finally, a globalization text that takes its subject seriously yet simultaneously explores the myths that surround it. Matt Sparke relates the two ‘levels’ or ways of thinking about globalization as a material phenomenon and as a political project. This not only makes for a refreshingly novel take on globalization, one that other introductory books manifestly fail to achieve as they go one way or the other... it does so in an accessible manner.”—John Agnew, UCLA
“This text is written by an extremely well qualified geographer who has experienced globalization in all its multi-faceted dimensions and has taught generations of his students about its inherent tensions and divisions. Its coverage is extensive and yet detailed; its well-researched content constantly challenges us to think critically about globalization; and its end-of-chapter exercises are great fun to work with. These are all the hallmarks of a superb text. I recommend it wholeheartedly!”—Henry Yeung, National University of Singapore
“Written with passion, lucidity, and rigor, [this is a] rare text, making accessible to a generation of globally-oriented students the complex and urgent debates about globalization and the empirical and analytical research that can inform such debates.”—Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley
