We are pleased to announce that Dr. Matt Sparke has recently published his new book on globalization, Introducing Globalization and our local-global landscape. Topics covered include global trade, finance, law, labor, governance, geography, ecology, and health. The ten chapters of the book address these topics in turn. Each chapter highlights how globalization has created extraordinary world-wide interdependencies, but in each case the chaptesr underline that it has also simultaneously created or reconstituted inequalities too. To understand all this, an important skill for global citizenship stressed by the book is the ability to question myths about globalization creating a level playing field or flat world. Introducing Globalization contrasts the discourses of flatness, newness, and inevitability that surround neoliberal ‘Globalization’ with a careful mapping of ongoing uneven development. For more information on the book, check out Dr. Sparke’s website.
