书目名称 | Globalization and Children | 副标题 | Exploring Potentials | 编辑 | Natalie Hevener Kaufman,Irene Rizzini | 视频video | | 概述 | Includes supplementary material: | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | ALLISON JAMES Globalization seems to be the word on everyone’s lips, with politicians as much as academics extolling its benefits as well as its contradictions. For some, globali- tion means, in practice, that whether in Bangkok or Boston, in London or Rio, as travelers from wealthy countries they can be sure to find the beer, the pizzas, and the jeans that they can at home; they can be both at home and away simulta- ously. For others, though, globalization has had rather different, often less bene- cial, consequences. In their everyday lives people have come to find themselves tied in, albeit in often unseen ways, into larger economic and political systems over which they have no control; yet these systems cause radical changes—often for the worse rather than the better—in the pattern of their daily lives. And it is those who have least voice whose lives are usually affected the most. In this book attention is drawn systematically—really for the first time—to a consideration of how processes of globalization variously impact upon the lives of children. Such an approach is not only most welcome in the field of childhood studies, but also long overdue. It will, at last, enable us to | 出版日期 | Book 2002 | 关键词 | education; globalization; psychology; transformation; well-being; youth | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/b105305 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4757-7646-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-0-306-47925-0 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002 |
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