Böcker i Global Connections-serien

Drawing on face-to-face and online ethnographic, survey and interview data with participants in distributed computing projects around the world, this book sheds light on the organizational and social structures of voluntary distributed computing projects, communities and teams.

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variety of uncommonly discussed geo-political sites and dynamics. The volume hosts methodologically and disciplinarily diverse contributions from around the world, discussing various contexts including Chechnya, Germany, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Palestine, the former Yugoslavia, Syria, South Africa, the United States, and the Internet. Bringing together scholarsΓÇÖ and activistsΓÇÖ historicized and site-specific perspectives, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice concerning violence, gender, and agency. In this revised and updated edition, the scope of inquiry is expanded to incorporate phenomena that have recently come to the forefront of public and scholarly scrutiny, such as Internet-based discourses of violence, female suicide bombers, and the Islamic StateΓÇÖs violence against women. At the same time, new data and developments are brought to bear on earlier discussions of violence against women across the globe in order to bring them fully up to date. With an international team of contributors, comprising eminent scholars, activists and policy-makers, this volume will be of interest to anyone conducting research in the areas of gender and sexuality, human rights, cultural studies, law, sociology, political science, history, post-colonialism and colonialism, anthropology, philosophy and religion.

This book offers a sociological study of corporate social responsibility, looking beyond the question of whether it is primarily a marketing concern, to understand how the terms of debates around corporate social responsibility are being set with regard to responsibility - and where it lies - in the global economy. Investigating the relations between businesses, the workers who contribute to their output, and the communities in which they operate, the author draws on a textual analysis of corporate social responsibility-related documents and interviews with corporate social responsibility professionals, representatives from certification schemes, shareholder groups, government officials, trade unionists and campaigners to offer a framework for categorising discourse on corporate social responsibility. This framework is applied to a series of recent case studies, including the factory-focused 'Keep Burberry British' campaign to prevent work being outsourced overseas; the event-focused 'PlayFair 2012' campaign for workers making official Olympic merchandise; and product-focused campaigns for cut flower workers, to consider the ways in which globalising corporate social responsibility discourse is mobilised in practice by different groups and the consequences, With attention to the wider implications for governance that follow from the power relations that characterise corporate social responsibility, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in governance, the sociology of work and organisations, employment relationships and conditions for workers in global production networks.

Challenges the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its critical transformation. This book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of social sciences through an assessment of the theoretical developments.

Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, this book proposes an original framework for the study of the long-term reproduction of inequalities under global capitalism.

Employing the case study of the emergence, representation and regulation of Viagra in the Swedish market, this book offers analyses of commercial material, medical discourses and legal documents to show how a Swedish, Viagra-consuming subject has been constructed in relation to the drug and how Viagra is imagined in relation to the Swedish man.

Examines discourses of rights and practices of resistance in post-conflict societies, exploring the interaction between the international human rights framework and different actors seeking political and social change. It reveals the necessity of social scientific interventions in the field of human rights.

Examining the transformation of contemporary public space by social actors in their enactment of new forms of politics and citizenship, this volume explores the globalisation of civil society over the last decade, as protest movements reach beyond national boundaries to create transnational connections.

This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public memory and public art, it considers the tendency of political contestations to move beyond national boundaries and create transnational connections. Departing from the approaches of social movements perspectives, it focuses on public space as a site of social "mixity" and opens up a new field for the study of politics and cultural controversies. An analysis of the paradigmatic change in the way in which society is made and politics is conducted, this study of the new enactment of citizenship in public space will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and politics with interests in protest movements and contentious politics, citizenship and the public sphere, and globalization.