Böcker i Global Connections-serien

Presents insights on the evolution of modern terrorism and describes its effects on global society, such as the origins of suicide bombing and the effects European political ideologies had on former colonies that are used to fuel conflicts and terrorist activity. This title is suitable for student researchers.

Despite the heinous atrocities committed during the 20th century by Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, and other virulent dictators, human rights policies have also moved forward at a pace previously unknown in earlier times. This title provides a path for understanding these complex events and the issues facing us today as citizens.

As the world's population approaches seven billion people, some fear that Earth's citizens face a catastrophic food crisis in the near future. This title explores the problem of world hunger, how experts propose to cure this problem, and what booming population growth means for the future of food.

Drawing on face-to-face and online ethnographic, survey and interview data with participants in distributed computing projects around the world, this book sheds light on the organizational and social structures of voluntary distributed computing projects, communities and teams.

Challenges the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its critical transformation. This book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of social sciences through an assessment of the theoretical developments.

Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, this book proposes an original framework for the study of the long-term reproduction of inequalities under global capitalism.

Employing the case study of the emergence, representation and regulation of Viagra in the Swedish market, this book offers analyses of commercial material, medical discourses and legal documents to show how a Swedish, Viagra-consuming subject has been constructed in relation to the drug and how Viagra is imagined in relation to the Swedish man.

Examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international human rights framework and different actors seeking political and social change. It reveals the necessity of social scientific interventions in the field of human rights.

Examining the transformation of contemporary public space by social actors in their enactment of new forms of politics and citizenship, this volume explores the globalisation of civil society over the last decade, as protest movements reach beyond national boundaries to create transnational connections.

This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public memory and public art, it considers the tendency of political contestations to move beyond national boundaries and create transnational connections. Departing from the approaches of social movements perspectives, it focuses on public space as a site of social "mixity" and opens up a new field for the study of politics and cultural controversies. An analysis of the paradigmatic change in the way in which society is made and politics is conducted, this study of the new enactment of citizenship in public space will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and politics with interests in protest movements and contentious politics, citizenship and the public sphere, and globalization.