Global Filipinos

Deirdre McKay

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrant... Lees meer

Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• This book examines the stories that corporations tell about themselves--and explores the powerful influence of corporations in the transformation of c... Lees meer

Youth and the City in the Global South

Karen Tranberg Hansen

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• The innovative, multi-site Youth and the City Project examined the effects of globalization and neoliberalism on the everyday experiences and future p... Lees meer

Generations and Globalization

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• "This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and... Lees meer

The American War in Contemporary Vietnam

Christina Schwenkel

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today--in official and unofficial hist... Lees meer

Music and Globalization

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• "World music" emerged as a commercial and musical category in the 1980s, but in some sense music has always been global. Through the metaphor of encou... Lees meer

Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops

Brad Weiss

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House an... Lees meer

Consuming Ocean Island

Katerina Martina Teaiwa

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosp... Lees meer

Aging and the Indian Diaspora

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to ex... Lees meer

Consuming Ocean Island

Katerina Martina Teaiwa

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosp... Lees meer

Recycling Indian Clothing

Lucy Norris

• Paperback | Engels | Tracking Globalization
• In today's globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman's blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique. Luc... Lees meer