Civilizing Globalization TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / History

Civilizing Globalization TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / HistoryDiscusses the many facets of globalization and its feasible reform in easy to understand language. Is it possible to harness the benefits of economic globalization without sacrificing social equity, ecological sustainability, and democratic governance? The first edition of Civilizing Globalization (2003) explored this question at a time of widespread popular discontent. This fully revised and expanded edition comes at an equally crucial juncture. The

and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail

divisive world

Elaborates the author's conception of plasticity by proposing a new way of thinking through Heidegger's writings on change

Faced with immense prejudice

students and policymakers

How dance and mass movement are used as a political tool by political regimes

Hottinger examines how these discourses shape mathematical subjectivity by limiting the way some groups-including women and people of color-are able to see themselves as practitioners of math

soldiers during the Vietnam War

theorists' perplexity within and about history

and thinking more broadly

Graham Pechey

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