The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies
Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Manfred B. Steger, Saskia Sassen, with Victor Faessel
The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies. Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of new scholarship has risen to make sense of it in its various transnational manifestations-including economic, social, cultural, ideological, technological, environmental, and in new communications. The editors--Mark Juergensmeyer, Saskia Sassen, and Manfred Steger--are recognized authorities in this emerging field and have gathered an esteemed cast of contributors to discuss various aspects in the field through a broad range of approaches.
Several essays focus on the emergence of the field and its historical antecedents. Other essays explore analytic and conceptual approaches to teaching and research in global studies, and the largest section will deal with the subject matter of global studies, challenges from diasporas and pandemics to the global city and the emergence of a transnational capitalist class. The final two sections feature essays that take a critical view of globalization from diverse perspectives and essays on global citizenship-the ideas and institutions that guide an emerging global civil society. This Handbook focuses on global studies more than on the phenomenon of globalization itself, though the various aspects of globalization are central to understanding how the field is currently being shaped.
(text from Oxford University Press)
Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on global culture, with emphasis on the global rise of religious violence and the challenge to the secular state. He has published more than two hundred articles and twenty books, including and the widely-read Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (University of California Press, 2003), and God in the Tumult of the Global Square, co-authored with Dinah Griego and John Soboslai (University of California Press, 2015). He also has edited The Oxford Handbook of Global Religion (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Manfred Steger is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and Honorary Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has served as an academic consultant on globalization for the US State Department and is the author or editor of over twenty books on globalization, global history, and the history of political ideas, including: The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy (Sage, 2013).
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her newest book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2014).
Victor Faessel, managing editor of the handbook, is Associate Director of the Mellichamp Initiative on 21st Century Global Dynamics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Contributors:
Paul Amar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Helmut Anheier, Hertie School of Governance
Rich Appelbaum, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mohammed A. Bamyeh, University of Pittsburgh
Paul Battersby, RMIT University
Upendra Baxi, University of Warwick
Walden Bello, State University of New York at Binghamton
Patrick Bond, Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
Karen Buckley, University of Manchester
Sucheng Chan, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sara Curran, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
Simon Dalby, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
Donatella della Porta, European University Institute, Florence
Allard Duursma, London School of Economics
Hilal Elver, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Esser, School of International Service, American University
Richard Falk, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Forman, University of Washington-Tacoma
Richard Giullianotti, Loughborough University
Jairus Grove, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Clive Hamilton, Charles Sturt University, Canberra
Jeffrey Haynes, London Metropolitan University
Kathryn H. Jacobsen, George Mason University
Paul James, Western Sydney University
Habibul Khondker, Zayed University
Tanya Lewis, RMIT University
Jack Lule, Lehigh University
Katherine Marshall, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
James Mittelman, School of International Service, American University
Valentine Moghadam, Northeastern University
Manoranjan Mohanty, Council for Social Development, New Delhi
Tuija Parikka, St. Johns University
Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh and University of Aberdeen
William I. Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ravi Roy, Southern Utah University
Dominic Sachsenmaier, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Hans Schattle, Yonsei University, Korea
Jan Aart Scholte, University of Gothenburg
Nandita Sharma, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Danish Institute for International Studies
Eve Darian Smith, University of California, Irvine
Jeb Sprague-Silgado, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Taylor, Northumbria University
Thomas Willett, Claremont Graduate University
Monica Duffy Toft, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and Peace Research Institute, Oslo
Linda Williams, RMIT University
