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Through the publication of newsletters, books, monographs, reports and through contributions to the GRN journal Globalizations, we hope to foster discussion and research on the dynamics and contested narratives of globalization. This website plays a key role in these discussions. It serves both as a bulletin board and communication resource.
Globalization - Book Series
Globalization: a book series edited by Manfred B. Steger and Terrell Carver, and published by Rowman and Littlefield. Globalization is a reader-friendly series of 18-20 informative books that brings important aspects of globalization to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, academics, and an interested general audience.
GRC Web Publications
From time to time the GRC will publish on its website booklength documents of conference proceedings to which it is a participant. The first of these reports to Global Public Health Conference was held in Hawaii in 2002 and 2003.
GRC Publications and Discussion Papers
Manuscripts:
Franz Broswimmer, Ecocide: A Short History and Sociology of Mass Extinction of Species
Ecocide was first published in October 2002 with PLUTO Press (London; see www.plutobooks.com/). The book has meanwhile been translated into French (with PARANGON since May 2003; see www.amazon.fr/), and Italian (with CAROCCI since October 2003; see www.carocci.it/), and Korean (since June 2004, with ECO-LIVRES). A Greek and Bulgarian translation (with KYVELI) has been announced for the end of 2004. A Spanish translation (with Editorial LAETOLI; www.laetoli.net/) will be available in 2005. The distributor of Pluto Press books in the US is University of Michigan Press (since 1st of July 2004; see www.press.umich.edu/). The author can be reached via email.
Papers:
Barry Gills, "Democratizing Globalization and Globalizing Democracy"
Barry Gills, "World system analysis, historical sociology and international relations: the difference a hyphen makes"
Barry Gills, "Re-orienting the New (International) Political Economy"
Fred Riggs, "Globalization, Ethnic Diversity and Nationalism: The Challenge for Democracies"
9/11 Dialogues, sponsored by the GRC
Kevin Gray, "'Crisis' in the labour movement: From Militance to Social Unionism"
Publications from the Dialogic Conferences
GRC Hawaii has conducted three conferences featuring small groups of scholars organized to produce a related published volume on a specific globalization subject. These "writers" or "dialogic" conferences are designed to fully engage the organizing editor (s) and the contributors in a full dialogue on the specified subject that leads to the subsequent publication.
Globalization, Public Institutions, and Fairness, convenors/editors, James D. Dator, Richard Pratt, University of Hawaii, 2006.
Globalization and Higher Education, convenors/editors, Jaishree K. Odin and Peter T. Manicas, University of Hawaii. Publication, University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
The Ideologies of Globalization, convenor, Manfred B. Steger, Illinois State University. Oxford University Press, 2005.
GRN Globalizations Journal
Globalizations is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the exploration of the phenomena of historical and contemporary globalization. The journal supported by the Globalization Research Network and published by Routledge aims to support a broad inquiry into the dynamics and effects of contemporary globalization and its varying impacts across and between societies.
Globalizations will seek to publish the best work exploring new meanings of globalization, bringing fresh ideas to the concept, broadening its scope, and contributing to shaping the debates of the future.
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