Globalisation and the Third World

✍ Scribed by Ray Kiely

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 234
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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, liberation theology in Latin America and the impact of the media. This book provides a critical introduction to the Third World around the unifying theme of globalisation.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Introduction: globalisation, (post-)modernity and the Third World......Page 10
The crisis of global development......Page 32
Transnational companies, global capital and the Third World......Page 54
Migration and the refugee experience......Page 76
Global aspects of health and health policy in Third World countries......Page 100
The Biodiversity Convention and global sustainable development......Page 122
Globalisation, ethnic identity and popular culture in Latin America......Page 150
Globalisation and cultural imperialism: a case study of the music industry......Page 172
Globalisation and religious activism......Page 194
Index......Page 226