Social and Cultural Foundations in Global Studies

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this text offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the study of the social and cultural aspects of global studies. After a brief introduction to global studies, the early chapters of the book survey the key concepts and processes of globalization as well as a critical look at the meaning and role globalization. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes that support and guide further independent exploration of the topics at hand. The second half of the book features interdisciplinary case studies, each of which focuses on a specific issue.

Eve Stoddard is a professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University. She is the author ofGlobal Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Nation and Positioning Race and Gender in (Post) colonial Plantation Space.

John Collins is a professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University. He is author ofGlobal Palestine and Occupied By Memory: The Intifada Generation and the Palestinian State of Emergency, as well as co-editor ofCollateral Language: A User’s Guide to America’s New War.