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Article: Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives.(Book review)
- Article from:
- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Gerry Treuren (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2004), pp. x + 324). $34.95 pb.
Shanahan and Treuren's timely edited collection highlights the diversity of globalisation. There are three recurrent themes of the book. Firstly, globalisation has many faces: economic, social, and political, and the impact of these faces of globalisation varies greatly in different contexts. Globalisation must be conceptualized as much more than an economic phenomenon because of the cultural, political, and social impact that the economic side of globalisation can have. Secondly, the book highlights that ...