Two of the most unprecedented transformations in the history of human social and economic life are currently underway. One, globalization, is the subject of ext

This book looks at the symbolic side of globalization, development, and aging. Many of the dimensions that are discussed represent updates of past debates but s

Focuses on the variety of ways in which age and ageing are socially constructed, and the extent to which growing old is being transformed through processes asso

Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But

Contrary to the common view that globalization undermines social agency, ‘alter-globalization activists', that is, those who contest globalization in its neo-