Regionalism, Multilateralism, and the Politics of Global Trade
This volume explores the changing relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and examine the implications for national policy in a global trading system.
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?
Street Protests and Fantasy Parks
Globalization, Culture, and the State
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.
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.
Gender and Change in Hong Kong
Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
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.
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.
Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific
Method, Practice, Theory
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Globalization and the Circumpolar North
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Against Orthodoxy
Studies in Nationalism
This volume challenges conventional approaches to the study of nationalism in the context of its violent resurgence.
Feminist Community Research
Case Studies and Methodologies
Researchers from multiple disciplines discuss the potential and the challenges of feminist community research.
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.
Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Canada and the World
Can national loyalties be reconciled with larger commitments to global well-being?