Free Download Rianne Letschert, Jan van Dijk, "The New Faces of Victimhood: Globalization, Transnational Crimes and Victim Rights"
English | 2010 | pages: 350 | ISBN: 9048190193, 940073896X | PDF | 3,7 mb
Besides generating wealth, globalization makes victims, including victims of new forms of crime. In this edited book of scholarly essays, international lawyers and criminologists reflect on the legal challenges posed by these dark sides of globalization. Examples include transnational organised crime, human trafficking and corruption, cyber crimes, international terrorism, global corporate crime and cross-border environmental crimes. The authors reflect on the limits of domestic systems of justice in providing protection, empowerment and redress to the victims of these emerging forms of global insecurity. They argue for the need of better international or supra-national institutional arrangements such as legal instruments and actions of the United Nations or regional organizations such as the European Union.

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English | ISBN: 1438493827 | 2023 | 234 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland's transforming global identity.

Free Download Globalization Under Construction: Govermentality, Law, and Identity By Richard Warren Perry; Bill Maurer
2003 | 392 Pages | ISBN: 0816639655 | PDF | 3 MB
The future outlines of the new global order are the constant object of speculation economic, political, and metaphysical. From the sunny new world proclaimed by global free marketers to the rebellion against globalization unleashed in the streets of Seattle and Genoa, to the doomsdays envisioned by transnational terrorists and counterterrorists alike, this emerging global-millennial epoch is foretold alternately as redemption or apocalypse. The authors consider these sweeping descriptions of humankind s future, as well as the discourses of globalization that filter and frame them, from perspectives in anthropology, geography, law, sociology, and cultural studies. Their goal is not to resolve the ultimate semantic or philosophical question of what globalization really is; instead, their essays explore the forms, practices, and effects of governmentality integral to global modernity s architecture. In Globalization under Construction, the authors ask: What are the rationalities of government implicit in global modernity s project of mobilizing space, time, and difference? And what difference does it make to the globalization debates to put those rationalities in the foreground of critical analysis? Altogether, their work attempts to discern in the disparateness of contemporary events an emerging pattern of governmentality, techniques of governance and assemblages of intersecting arguments about the history of the present and the nature of the future that our present portends. Contributors: Kitty Calavita, U of California, Irvine; Rosemary J. Coombe, York U; Susan Bibler Coutin, U of California, Irvine; Karen Leonard, U of California, Irvine; Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley College; Aihwa Ong, U of California, Berkeley; Susan Roberts, U of Kentucky; Lisa Sanchez, U of California, San Diego; Liliana Suarez-Navaz, Autonoma U, Madrid.

Free Download Andy Mathers, "Struggling for a Social Europe: Neoliberal Globalization and the Birth of a European Social Movement"
English | 2007 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0754645800, 1138266906 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Protests at summit meetings have inspired intense debate over the nature and significance of the 'anti-globalization' or 'anti-capitalist' movement. However, the European dimension of this movement is still largely unknown. In this insightful book Andy Mathers addresses this deficit by focusing on events that have marked the birth of a European social movement. He relates the development of the movement to key matters such as economic, employment and welfare state restructuring along neoliberal lines. He also challenges ideas about the nature of contemporary collective action and the character of present day social movements. Mathers discusses the significance of the movement and its future development through a critical engagement with the work of major writers in European sociology and of academics influential in the wider global movement such as Pierre Bourdieu. A postscript brings readers fully up-to-date with developments in the type of 'social Europe' propagated by the institutions of the EU as well as in the maturation of a social movement to oppose it.

Free Download Stefanie Wickstrom, "Mestizaje and Globalization: Transformations of Identity and Power"
English | ISBN: 0816530904 | 2014 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Spanish word mestizaje does not easily translate into English. Its meaning and significance have been debated for centuries since colonization by European powers began. Its simplest definition is "mixing." As long as the term has been employed, norms and ideas about racial and cultural relations in the Americas have been imagined, imposed, questioned, rejected, and given new meaning.

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English | ISBN: 1785363832 | 2018 | 480 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Processes of globalization have changed the world in many, often fundamental, ways. Increasingly these processes are being debated and contested. This Handbook offers a timely, rich and critical panorama of these multifaceted developments from a geographical perspective.

Free Download Handbook of Research on Globalization, Investment, and Growth-Implications of Confidence and Governance
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1466682744 | 558 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB
The global economic crises of recent years have offered some sobering lessons, compelling economists, political scientists, and policymakers to reconsider traditional theories regarding the cultivation of developing nations. The Handbook of Research on Globalization, Investment, and Growth-Implications of Confidence and Governance seeks to empirically explore the relationship between a number of variables, including consumer confidence, private-sector performance, and governmental regulation. Targeting academics, social scientists, financial professionals, and lawmakers, this book seeks to categorize and analyze developing economies in a post-crisis global financial landscape in order to help shape desperately-needed policies capable of safeguarding against potential catastrophe.

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English | 2015 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1785602470 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and rejuvenation. This is due in large part to the proliferation of manifest crises in the early years of the twenty-first century. The terrorist attacks in September of 2001, the financial crisis of 2008 that spawned the Great Recession, the Euro crisis that began in fall 2010 - these events provided glimpses of the existing system of political economy, and opportunities to begin to grasp and reveal the ongoing reconstruction of business-labor-government relations in the early 21st century. Yet, in a variety of ways, the notions that theories and practices of rigorous social critique in and of modern societies could become outdated, or that they were based on a categorical misunderstanding of the nature of social, economic, political and cultural life in the modern world, were symptomatic of an ongoing reconfiguration of the system of political economy itself.

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by Manfred B. Steger;
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1538179725 | 231 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.16 MB

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by Roni Kay M. O'Dell and Devin K. Joshi
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1538164140 | 277 Pages | True PDF | 2.54 MB