UID:
edocfu_9958102945902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (234 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-76947-4
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1-134-76948-2
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0-415-14076-5
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1-280-05680-0
Inhalt:
This book examines the changing position of the Developing World within the world system. It focuses on particular issues which cut across communities, nations, regions and, in consequence, the world. These include migration, health and disease, the media, transnational corporations, religion, and political and economic institutions. The contributors draw on a wealth of illustrations and global examples to examine topics such as HIV/AIDS transmission, the mediatized Gulf War, consumption patterns, the Third World in the First, Orientalism and Islam, environmental and urban movements, libe
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: globalisation, (post-)modernity and the Third World; The crisis of global development; Transnational companies, global capital and the Third World; Migration and the refugee experience; Global aspects of health and health policy in Third World countries; The Biodiversity Convention and global sustainable development; Globalisation, ethnic identity and popular culture in Latin America; Globalisation and cultural imperialism: a case study of the music industry; Globalisation and religious activism; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-14077-3
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-203-34716-1
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203347164
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