Globalization has become one of the dominant ideas of recent times. However, is the debate on globalization as global as it ought to be? In this book Grant and Rennie Short have brought together prominent experts in the field to consider how globalization affects marginalized countries and groups. A variety of case studies provide a unique assessment of the issue of globalization and offer a new look at the relationship between the global and the local.

TEJ K. BHATIA Professor of Linguistics, Syracuse University MEHRZAD BOROUJERDI Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Syracuse University ANTHONY D. KING Professor of Art History, and of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghampton MAUREEN HAYS-MITCHELL Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Colgate University YEONG-HYUN KIM Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio University JAN NIJMAN Professor of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Miami DEBORAH PELLOW Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University ROLAND ROBERTSON Professor of Sociology and Director, Centre for the Study of Globalization, University of Aberdeen SASKIA SASSEN Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics