Why Globalization Matters : Engaging with Theory (Paperback)

Introduction 1. A modest proposal: global theory for tough ? and not so tough ? times 2. What was globalization? 3. Eurasian globalization: past and present 4. Coloniality and globalization: a decolonial take 5. Green- or rose-coloured lenses for Globalization Matters? Transdisciplinary epistemic practices and paradigmatic transformations in ecologies and equalities 6. Glocal as hybridity, hegemony and reflexive engagement 7. Humanity for itself? Reflections on climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic 8. The new conceptual vocabulary of the social sciences: the ‘globalization debates’ in context 9. The human development and capabilities approach as a twenty-first century ideology of globalization 10. How to theorize globalization: a comment 11. Globalization in question: why does engaged theory matter?