{"product_id":"introducing-globalization-isbn-9780631231288","title":"Introducing Globalization","description":"\u003cp\u003eDesigned specifically for introductory globalization courses, \u003ci\u003eIntroducing Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdentifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependency\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of transnational corporations and global commodity chains, to global health challenges and policies, to issues of worker solidarity and global labor markets, through to emerging forms of global mobility by both business elites and their critics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by an award-winning teacher, and enhanced throughout by numerous empirical examples, maps, tables, an extended bibliography, glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading and student research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSupported by additional web resources – available upon publication at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/go\/sparke\"\u003ewww.wiley.com\/go\/sparke\u003c\/a\u003e – including hot links to news reports, examples of globalization and other illustrative sites, and archived examples of student projects\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngage with fellow readers of \u003ci\u003eIntroducing Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e on the book's Facebook page at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IntroducingGlobalization\"\u003ewww.facebook.com\/IntroducingGlobalization\u003c\/a\u003e, or learn more about this topic by enrolling in the free Coursera course Globalization and You at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/globalization\"\u003ewww.coursera.org\/course\/globalization\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Globalization 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Discourse 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Commodities 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Labor 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Money 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Law 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Governance 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Space 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Health 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Responses 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Sparke models inquiry into taken-for-granted concepts or events through rich understanding and questioning. More importantly, he reframes spatial theory as the starting point of social studies conversations about globalization. Rather than accept the inevitability of globalization, he depicts the inevitability of inequity. He examines how inequities become actualized in lives through geopolitical and geoeconomic infrastructure. He encourages us to reconsider the relationships between disciplines, contending that disciplined inquiry enables simplistic understanding. He allows geography and spatial theory to be a way of understanding the world, a lens that resonates across the social studies. The book importantly segments a variety of explanatory moments to allow readers without a strong economics background to understand economic principles. It is a lack of economic understanding that makes global policy discussions unintelligible to the general public. In the process, he ultimately constructs the globally minded citizen. While his brand of global thinking (and citizenship) has a problematic Western perspective, it also utilizes a critical lens that requires awareness of these contradictions and their implications for ourselves and others. The spatial thinking highlighted throughout this review relies on thinking across the disciplines to attend to how, where, and why places are constructed independently and interdependently across scales and time. Rather than assuming that places are knowable, rejecting the three myths encourages questions about what has been made invisible, how new places come to exist, the kinds of interactions that occur therein, and how they reify and amend cultural and other discourses.”  (\u003ci\u003eTheory \u0026amp; Research in Social Education\u003c\/i\u003e, 19 February 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Sparke\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Geography and International Studies at the University of Washington, where he also serves as the Director of the undergraduate program in Global Health. He has authored over 60 scholarly publications, including the book \u003ci\u003eIn the Space of Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), but he is also dedicated to teaching about globalization as well as writing about it. He has multiple awards for his work as a teacher, including the lifetime Distinguished Teaching award from the University of Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cp\u003eInterdisciplinary, accessible, and comprehensive, this broad guide identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependency. At the same time, it is designed to help students understand the way in which the word “Globalization” – and the struggles over its meaning – lies at the heart of debates between advocates of a “free market” and what critics describe as the damage and devastation of “market fundamentalism” and “neoliberalism.” \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTopics explored in detail include the rise of transnational corporations and global commodity chains; the development of global labor markets and worker solidarity; the recent global financial crisis; transnational law and legal advocacy; the increasing influence of market forces over governance, both locally and globally; the development of global cities and the emergence of other new spaces mediated by market relations; global health challenges and policies; and emerging forms of global mobility and organization by both business elites and their critics. Enhanced throughout by numerous empirical examples, maps, tables, and other illustrations, the book includes a glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading and student research. Additional resources are available at \u003cb\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/go\/sparke\"\u003ewww.wiley.com\/go\/sparke\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e for readers looking to explore topics further. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten by an award-winning teacher, \u003ci\u003eIntroducing Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e outlines the empirical evidence about interdependency in detail and with historical sensitivity. It helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Finally, a globalization text that takes its subject seriously yet simultaneously explores the myths that surround it. Matt Sparke relates the two ‘levels’ or ways of thinking about globalization as a material phenomenon and as a political project. This not only makes for a refreshingly novel take on globalization, one that other introductory books manifestly fail to achieve as they go one way or the other... it does so in an accessible manner.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Agnew, UCLA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This text is written by an extremely well qualified geographer who has experienced globalization in all its multi-faceted dimensions and has taught generations of his students about its inherent tensions and divisions. Its coverage is extensive and yet detailed; its well-researched content constantly challenges us to think critically about globalization; and its end-of-chapter exercises are great fun to work with. These are all the hallmarks of a superb text. I recommend it wholeheartedly!”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry Yeung, National University of Singapore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Written with passion, lucidity, and rigor, [this is a] rare text, making accessible to a generation of globally-oriented students the complex and urgent debates about globalization and the empirical and analytical research that can inform such debates.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnanya Roy, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989454274789,"sku":"NP9780631231288","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631231288.jpg?v=1761784163","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/introducing-globalization-isbn-9780631231288","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}