"To date, the nascent consequential notion of 'multiple modernities' has been predominately grounded in historical research with the purpose of validating the theory. Yet, the notion of multiple modernities represents a radical transformation in the way modernity and, indeed, th…
We live in a global age, an age of vast scale and speed, an age of great technological and economic and environmental change, in conditions our ancestors could hardly have imagined. What does this compression of geographical and temporal scale mean for our political thinking? Do…
In the United States, the causes and even the meanings of poverty are disconnected from the causes and meanings of global poverty. The Routledge Handbook of Poverty and the United States provides an authoritative overview of the relationship of poverty with the rise of neolibera…
'The Globalization of Health Care' offers a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.
The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization. It ties together the manifestation of this globalization i…
Adapting the past: politics and history -- Adapting authorship: politics and convergence -- Adapting postcolonialism: politics and race -- Adapting nationality: politics and globalization -- Adapting genre: politics and popular culture -- Adapting the body: politics and gender. …
Kurlantzick proposes that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the past two decades, reflects a new and disturbing trend: democracy in worldwide decline.
In A Common Strangeness, Jacob Edmond exemplifies a new, multilingual and multilateral approach to literary and cultural studies. He begins with the entrance of China into multinational capitalism and the appearance of the Parisian flâneur in the writings of a Chinese poet exile…