Global Futures - Key Concepts for Social Transformation

Global Futures is a provocation for us to rethink some of the key words and concepts which define the current global order. This book seeks to re-energise our desire for a better future and will interest students and researchers of sociology, politics, international relations, and global development.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Development 2. Modernity 3. History 4. Politics 5. Desire 6. Complexity 7. Futures

About the author

Ronaldo Munck is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Dublin City University and a visiting professor at the University of Buenos Aires and St. Mary's University, Nova Scotia. Professor Munck has researched and written widely on global development issues such as labour and social movements, international migration, and contemporary Latin America from an engaged perspective.

Summary

Global Futures is a provocation for us to rethink some of the key words and concepts which define the current global order. This book seeks to re-energise our desire for a better future and will interest students and researchers of sociology, politics, international relations, and global development.

Product details

• Authors: Ronaldo Munck, Ronaldo (Dublin City University Munck
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032893389
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289338-9
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Routledge Critical Development Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sociology, Globalization, Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Poverty & unemployment, Sociolinguistics, Politics & government, Social discrimination & inequality, Political Economy, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Poverty and precarity, Social discrimination and social justice