Globalization and Identity: Development and Integration in a Changing World

by Alan Carling

Overview

Globalization is often perceived in rather simplistic terms: as a single universal process leading ultimately to global equality and global democracy. The contributors to "Globalisation and Identity" take a different view. Drawing on their expertise across a variety of disciplines they argue that globalisation is far more complex, a fact reflected in a range of key problems - centred on issues of equality and identity - now facing peoples and governments around the world. How can one successfully integrate immigrant populations within the structures of state and civil society? Is national identity compatible with cultural diversity? What are the contradictions posed in the contemporary world by the movement of populations? How does one integrate state structures and national societies themselves within an emergent international political order and a global civil society? Questions of globalisation and identity are of vital importance to aims of global harmony and global equality and this timely work provides a rich and integrated exploration of many of the key issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850438489
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/28/2005
Series:	International Library of Human Geography , #9
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.56(w) x 8.64(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

Alan Carling is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Bradford.

Table of Contents

Part I: Inequality, Globalization and Development
• Globalization and its Inequalities --Marjorie Lister
• International development and social science--Michael Tribe
• Part II New Social Divisions in a Globalising World
• Migration and mobility--Bill Jordan and Franck Duvell
• Global Childhood?--Tom Cockburn
• Part III: Cultural Integration, Conflict and Citizenship
• North African Immigrants in France--Farid Ait Si Selmi
• South Asian Migrants in Britain--Marie Macey
• The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia--John Allcock
• Women and Democracy in 20th Century France--Maggie Allison
• Part IV: Sexuality and Identity
• The Medic-legal Defence of Male Homosexulaity in Spain--Richard Cleminson
• Gays and Lesbians in France--Owen Heathcote
• Part V: Neo-liberalism and Social Change
• Tanzania and Development--David Potts
• Liberalisation and Social Exclusion: the Case of Sri Lanka--Wendy Olsen and Nishara Fernando
• Part VI: Global Citizenship, Politics and Social Development
• Universal Morality and Human Identity--Ian Vine
• Globalization, Resistance and Emancipation--Sarah Perrigo