Good Governance in Economic Development
International Norms and Chinese Perspectives
Good Governance in Economic Development examines what happens at the intersection of international and Chinese conceptions of transparency, accountability, and public participation.
The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims
Leading scholars investigate the complex role that competing moral economies play in ethnic and nationalist conflicts.
Hearts and Mines
The US Empire’s Culture Industry
A fascinating look at the symbiotic relationships between the US security state and the US culture industry, and their drive to promote the US Empire as a way of life through the production, packaging, and selling of cultural commodities in world markets.
Emergent Brazil
Key Perspectives on a New Global Power
Inside the Teaching Machine
Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University
Territorial Pluralism
Managing Difference in Multinational States
This volume examines the implications of territorial pluralism for the peaceful and democratic management of difference in states characterized by ethnic, national, linguistic, or cultural divisions.
Co-operative Canada
Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses
A comprehensive look at how Canadians are responding to the forces of globalization through collectively owned enterprises.
Indigenous Encounters with Neoliberalism
Place, Women, and the Environment in Canada and Mexico
A cross-comparison of gender and indigeneity in the neoliberal contexts of Canada and Mexico.
Action and Reaction in the World System
The Dynamics of Economic and Political Power
This book provides a multidisciplinary framework to understand the complexities of the post-Soviet international system, a system that is multipolar, ideologically heterogeneous, and highly unstable.
The Globalizing World and the Human Community
International Trade Law and Domestic Policy
Canada, the United States, and the WTO
An innovative assessment of the extent to which international judicial bodies influence domestic law and policy arrangements.
Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Canada and the World
Can national loyalties be reconciled with larger commitments to global well-being?
Two Mediterranean Worlds
Diverging Paths of Globalization and Autonomy
The Mediterranean, a region of uneven globalization, offers clues to understanding the future of democracy in North Africa and the Near East.
Feminist Community Research
Case Studies and Methodologies
Researchers from multiple disciplines discuss the potential and the challenges of feminist community research.
Against Orthodoxy
Studies in Nationalism
This volume challenges conventional approaches to the study of nationalism in the context of its violent resurgence.
Feminist Ethics and Social Policy
Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care
This volume addresses the theoretical and practical relationships among the feminization of migrant labour, the ethics of care, and social policy in the new global economy.
Property, Territory, Globalization
Struggles over Autonomy
Focusing on sites of friction in property regimes, this book reveals that a politics of place can help local actors build bases of autonomy to withstand, and even reshape, the forces of globalization.
Globalization and Local Adaptation in International Trade Law
Drawing on case studies from the Pacific Rim, this book traces the selective adaptation of international trade law to local conditions.
Locating Global Order
American Power and Canadian Security after 9/11
This volume unveils how the security policies of allied powers, such as Canada, are integral to the creation and maintenance of a US-led global order.
Solidarities Beyond Borders
Transnationalizing Women's Movements
Case studies from North America, Latin America, and Southeast Asia explore the challenges and benefits of building transnational ties among feminists and women’s groups.
Globalization and the Circumpolar North
Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy
Insights for a Global Age
This book looks at how indigenous peoples in various contexts have thought about, and responded to, the pressures that globalization has on their cultural, political, and geographical autonomy.
Cultural Autonomy
Frictions and Connections
Offers a multifaceted perspective on how global changes in the organization of power have transformed the ability of individuals and communities to create their own meanings.
A Perilous Imbalance
The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance
Tackles the pressing question of how Canadian engagement with globalization can be marshaled to advance rather than impair human security, ecological integrity, and social emancipation.
Unsettled Legitimacy
Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era
This ground-breaking work explores how the unsettling of legitimacy has affected the relationships between authority, power, and political community in local, regional, national, and global settings.
Empires and Autonomy
Moments in the History of Globalization
This collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.
Identity/Difference Politics
How Difference Is Produced, and Why It Matters
Identity/Difference Politics offers a new direction for the study of identity/difference, one that moves beyond liberal multiculturalism’s preoccupation with culture.
Renegotiating Community
Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts
Using original case studies to show how a range of communities deal with the forces of globalization, this book redraws the conceptual maps through which community, globalization, and autonomy are understood.
Global Ordering
Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World
This innovative, interdisciplinary work explores key institutional fault lines between the tectonic plates of globalization and the insistent demands for individual and collective autonomy.
Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific
Method, Practice, Theory
Organizing the Transnational
Labour, Politics, and Social Change
This collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.
From World Order to Global Disorder
States, Markets, and Dissent
Demonstrates the profound effect of globalization on relations between the state, civil society, and markets, as well as on collective and individual rights.
Gender and Change in Hong Kong
Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
Globalization and Well-Being
Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.
Sex and Borders
Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand
A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.
Street Protests and Fantasy Parks
Globalization, Culture, and the State
Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World
Increasingly, Indigenous people are being drawn into global networks. In the long term, cultural isolation is unlikely to be a viable – even if sometimes desired – option, so how can Indigenous people protect and advance their cultural values in the face of pressure from an interconnected world?