Global Heartland

Faranak Miraftab

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to wor... Lees meer

An Ethnography of Hunger

Kristin Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, p... Lees meer

Tenement Nation

Christa Ballard Tooley

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotland... Lees meer

In Sickness and in Wealth

Carol Chan

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So... Lees meer

The Chinese Atlantic

Sean Metzger

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• In The Chinese Atlantic , Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new und... Lees meer

Looking Behind the Label

Tim Bartley, Sebastian Koos, Hiram Samel, Gustavo Setrini, Nik Summers

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful chan... Lees meer

Tenement Nation

Christa Ballard Tooley

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotland... Lees meer

Archipelago of Care

Deirdre McKay

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay consid... Lees meer

Fast Money Schemes

John Cox

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious schem... Lees meer

Global Mountain Regions

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions.... Lees meer

Rooted Globalism

Kevin Funk

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• Does the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class? In Rooted Global... Lees meer

Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• In the economics of everyday life, even ethnicity has become a potential resource to be tapped, generating new sources of profit and power, new ways o... Lees meer

Bastards of Utopia

Maple Razsa

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• Bastards of Utopia , the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical... Lees meer

Rooted Globalism

Kevin Funk

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• Does the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class? In Rooted Global... Lees meer

Paprika, Foie Gras, and Red Mud

Zsuzsa Gille

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban... Lees meer

An Archipelago of Care

Deirdre McKay

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay consid... Lees meer

Global Mountain Regions

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions.... Lees meer

Looking Behind the Label

Tim Bartley, Sebastian Koos, Hiram Samel

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful chan... Lees meer

Branding Bhakti

Nicole Karapanagiotis

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• How do religious groups reinvent themselves in order to attract new audiences? How do they rebrand their messages and recast their rituals in order to... Lees meer

Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• In the economics of everyday life, even ethnicity has become a potential resource to be tapped, generating new sources of profit and power, new ways o... Lees meer

Fast Money Schemes

John Cox

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious schem... Lees meer

Faked in China

Fan Yang

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It trac... Lees meer

Transformations on the Ground

Anne Griffiths

• Paperback | Engels | Framing the Global
• Transformations on the Ground considers the ways in which power in all its forms--local, international, legal, familial--affects the collision of glob... Lees meer

Framing the Global

• Hardcover | Engels | Framing the Global
• Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues. Essays are framed around the entry points or key conce... Lees meer