A Modern Guide to Globalization
Published on 31. October 2025
Book
Hardback
314 pages
978-1-80220-568-8 (ISBN)
Description
This Modern Guide provides invaluable insights from leading scholars into the burgeoning field of global studies. At a time of heated debate regarding the future of humanity and the resilience of earth-system processes, it examines the strengths and weaknesses of global scholarship as a tool for understanding the human condition.
Contributing authors present incisive and accessible commentary on key practical issues, including climate change, populism, COVID-19, sexism, racism, and digitization. They explore in detail how global theory can respond in innovative ways to contemporary problems worldwide and keep pace with runaway trends and daunting circumstances. Chapters demonstrate the many ways that globalization shapes today's rapidly evolving world, embracing the need to reflect on globalization's achievements and failures. Ultimately, the book charts the current and projected state of a globalized world undergoing seismic changes, reflecting on the threat or promise of a new world order.
A Modern Guide to Globalization is a vital read for academics and students in globalization, international politics, sociology and political theory, analysing the key research questions that have emerged in recent academic debates. It is also a vital resource for international policy-makers.
Contributing authors present incisive and accessible commentary on key practical issues, including climate change, populism, COVID-19, sexism, racism, and digitization. They explore in detail how global theory can respond in innovative ways to contemporary problems worldwide and keep pace with runaway trends and daunting circumstances. Chapters demonstrate the many ways that globalization shapes today's rapidly evolving world, embracing the need to reflect on globalization's achievements and failures. Ultimately, the book charts the current and projected state of a globalized world undergoing seismic changes, reflecting on the threat or promise of a new world order.
A Modern Guide to Globalization is a vital read for academics and students in globalization, international politics, sociology and political theory, analysing the key research questions that have emerged in recent academic debates. It is also a vital resource for international policy-makers.
Reviews / Votes
'A Modern Guide to Globalization is a timely and important contribution to the field of globalization and global studies. Through its conceptual and empirical intervention it charts a profoundly new scholarly landscape for inter-civilizational comparative analyses, allowing for a temporal gaze that reaches further back to pre-history and imagines possibilities far beyond the current time. It consequently creates space for deepening our understanding of the nature of social, institutional, and organizational global continuities.' -- Sara Curran, University of Washington, USA 'This book offers a careful and considered engagement with the evolving narratives of globalization. It explores the complex, nonlinear history of globalization and the interplay between globalizing and localizing forces. The book raises important questions about how globalization has been theorized and invites readers to reflect on the shifting contours of global studies in uncertain times.' -- Heikki Patomaeki, University of Helsinki, FinlandMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80220-568-8 (9781802205688)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Edited by Barrie Axford, Professor Emeritus in Political Science, School of Law and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University and Richard Huggins, School of Health and Society, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Content
Contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction: is globalization still a measure of these times? xiii
Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins
1 Global scholarship in the struggle for a better world 1
Markus S. Schulz
2 Changing formations of globalization: ontological
disjunctures in the postcolonial pluriverse 22
Paul James and Manfred B. Steger
3 What is advanced globalization? The state of globalization in
our time 45
Roland Benedikter, Ingrid Kofler and Katharina Crepaz
4 The global rise of localism: national populism, neo-tribalism
and the politics of knowledge 70
Victor Roudometof
5 Connected, disrupted, entangled: nonlinear globalization 91
Habibul Haque Khondker
6 Towards truly global and decolonial ecologies of knowledge?
The question of climate change 112
Anna M. Agathangelou
7 Globalization after Covid: The rise of apocalyptic global
consciousness 139
Didem Buhari
8 Globalization and feminist waves 156
Valentine M. Moghadam
9 The return of the political redux - globalisation after populism 181
Simon Tormey
10 Indifferent globalities: world-making through contagion and
connection 200
Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins
11 From civilizationism to the civilizational imaginary: the inter-
civilizational perspective in global theorizing 226
Ino Rossi
List of contributors vii
Introduction: is globalization still a measure of these times? xiii
Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins
1 Global scholarship in the struggle for a better world 1
Markus S. Schulz
2 Changing formations of globalization: ontological
disjunctures in the postcolonial pluriverse 22
Paul James and Manfred B. Steger
3 What is advanced globalization? The state of globalization in
our time 45
Roland Benedikter, Ingrid Kofler and Katharina Crepaz
4 The global rise of localism: national populism, neo-tribalism
and the politics of knowledge 70
Victor Roudometof
5 Connected, disrupted, entangled: nonlinear globalization 91
Habibul Haque Khondker
6 Towards truly global and decolonial ecologies of knowledge?
The question of climate change 112
Anna M. Agathangelou
7 Globalization after Covid: The rise of apocalyptic global
consciousness 139
Didem Buhari
8 Globalization and feminist waves 156
Valentine M. Moghadam
9 The return of the political redux - globalisation after populism 181
Simon Tormey
10 Indifferent globalities: world-making through contagion and
connection 200
Barrie Axford and Richard Huggins
11 From civilizationism to the civilizational imaginary: the inter-
civilizational perspective in global theorizing 226
Ino Rossi