Middle Classes in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• ​This volume challenges the concept of the 'new African middle class' with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Sahar... Lees meer

Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Relations

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• The concept of culture has long been criticized, with many scholars reformulating it or discarding it entirely. The field of intercultural communicati... Lees meer

Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theo... Lees meer

The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• The proliferation ofthe internethas often been referred to as the fourth technological revolution. This book explores the diffusion of radical new com... Lees meer

Managing Chineseness

Daphnee Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value ... Lees meer

Globalization and Emerging Societies

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• In the setting of twenty-first century globalization this volume focuses on emerging societies, rather than emerging markets or powers. Adopting a soc... Lees meer

The Work and Play of the Mind in the Information Age

Phillip Kalantzis-Cope

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• Includes a foreword by McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto Tells the story of the information age as reflected in its forms of property Analys... Lees meer

Ideology in a Global Age

R Soborski

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book challenges the popular view that established ideologies no longer make sense in today's globalizing world. Considered from a broad historica... Lees meer

The New Middle Class in China

E Tsang

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• Based on interviews with entrepreneurs, professionals and regional party cadres' from a range of age groups, this book argues that Western class categ... Lees meer

Extractive Bargains

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book is the first to focus on state-led 'extractive bargains, ' designed to reach a social consensus on the extent of extractive activities, how ... Lees meer

The New Middle Class in China

E Tsang

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book argues that Western class categories do not directly apply to China and that the new Chinese middle class is distinguished more by socio-cul... Lees meer

Border Shifts

N Ribas-Mateos

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• Border Shifts develops a more complex and multifaceted understanding of global borders, analysing internal and external EU borders from the Mediterran... Lees meer

Inequality, Socio-Cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa

Dieter Neubert

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa.... Lees meer

Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book questions why Southeast Asian nation states are struggling to adopt full-fledged liberal democracy and attempts to better understand the rel... Lees meer

Inequality, Socio-Cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa

Dieter Neubert

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa.... Lees meer

Re-Imagined Universities and Global Citizen Professionals

Shanti George

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• Higher education is increasingly under fire for its overwhelming response to market considerations rather than nurturing essential human values. Inter... Lees meer

Ideology in a Global Age

R Soborski

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• Ideology has been pronounced dead on several occasions in the past. The most recent verdict to this effect has been made in the context of the globali... Lees meer

Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour

Jaap Van Ginneken

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book introduces principles of Chaos theory (and Complex Adaptive Systems) to social science, in a lively and elegant way. It applies it to the tw... Lees meer

Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theo... Lees meer

Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour

Jaap Van Ginneken

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book introduces principles of Chaos theory (and Complex Adaptive Systems) to social science, in a lively and elegant way. It applies it to the tw... Lees meer

Mediated Citizenship

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This book sets out to answer what appears to be a deceptively simple question: how do poor and marginalized citizens engage the state in the global So... Lees meer

Middle Classes in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• ​This volume challenges the concept of the 'new African middle class' with new theoretical and empirical insights into the changing lives in Sub-Sahar... Lees meer

Mediated Citizenship

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the state ... Lees meer

The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East

• Paperback | Engels | Frontiers of Globalization
• This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon conte... Lees meer