Bücher der Reihe Global Realities

Focuses on how globalization is impacting contemporary Israel, it focuses on two conflicting trends; liberal democracy with a cosmopolitan edge, and ethno-religious traditionalism. This book is an introduction to contemporary Israel and its place in the world.

Offers a synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland in the past several years. This book explains what this means for traditional Irish culture and society and offers a social portrait of globalizing Ireland.

Combines an analysis of the city's cultures and social forms, as well as the tranformation of the physical city itself, with the broader issues of postcolonialism, transnationalism and economic globalization.

By applying globalization theory to detailed accounts of everyday life in an Arab society, this book traces the development of contemporary Morocco. Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed, it provides an introduction to a topical issue in the increasingly globalized world.

Seeks to understand how the Philippines has become the world's largest exporter of government-sponsored temporary contract labor and, in the process, has dramatically reshaped both the processes of globalization and also our understanding of globalization as concept.

By showing how much of what is considered peripheral to urban life is actually critical to it, this book opens up ways for understanding what it is possible to do in cities.

Tracing the development of modern Australian society in the global age, this text focuses on key areas, such as settler/indigenous relations, economics and culture since the 1980s, and the effects of the growing diversity caused by globalization.