127 6 Globalization Introduction Our understanding of democratic backsliding would be incomplete without an exploration of the global context propelling discontent. Globalization was supposed to benefit developed and developing countries around the world. Instead globalization has been reviled (and loved) almost everywhere. In 2002, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz (2002) sought to explain in his book Globalization and Its Discontents why there was so much dissatisfaction with globalization in developing countries. Today globalization is
Alps, are finding themselves becoming key sites in the supply chains that support energy transitions happening elsewhere. It has been estimated that the expansion of renewable energy required by 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, might require as much as 34 metric tonnes of copper, 50 million tonnes of zinc, 162 million tonnes of aluminium, and 40 million tonnes of lead ( Hickel, 2019 ). All of this must come from somewhere. It must be detected, extracted, shipped, processed, and manufactured into renewable
9 Global migrations and global social policy Nicola Yeates and Nicola Piper Overview Migration has featured in global social policy debate and action for the best part of a century. Key global social policy issues include the relationship between migration and development, labour exploitation and portability of rights and justice. This chapter focuses on issues that are of special relevance to migrant women. These include domestic and health work. We illustrate differences among women as well as between women and men in global social policy in terms of how
275 13 Global health policy Meri Koivusalo and Eeva Ollila Overview Global health policy is concerned with global agreements, financing, policies and practices of global actors, structures and measures that affect health, as well as the ways in which national health policies are shaped by global health issues and other global agreements, actors and processes. This chapter focuses on three main domains: first, agendas related to health systems, including health-related products and technologies, and how health systems are organised and financed; second
6 Global social justice Theo Papaioannou Overview Global justice is the extension of the theory and practice of social justice to the world. It is founded on the moral and political claim that, in today’s globalising world, our duties and obligations to other people extend beyond state borders. This justifies global social policies that aim at eradicating global poverty and reducing inequality. This chapter examines key debates about global justice and reviews different schools of thought. The argument put forward is that global justice is both a normative
With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.
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Introduction Globalisation has helped intensify the international flow of people, information, policy instruments, goods and services in recent decades. However, as Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations once argued, social problems travel without passports and ‘show little regard for the niceties of borders’ ( Annan, 2009 ). In fact, there has been increasing global concern with problems in areas such as immigration, health, security, poverty, hunger, gender inequalities, environment, finance and the economy, among others. Various agents
Various movements are afoot in the field of global health: from the collective control of epidemics to the personalization of disease; from trial and error to the standardization of evidence and policy; from health as a public good to the pharmaceuticalization of health care; from governmental detachment to the industrialization of the nongovernmental sector and a privatized politics of survival. Alongside them, critical questions abound: has the biopolitical morphed into a multilevel turf war of private versus public stakeholders battling over the utility of
19 TWO Global warming as ecocide Introduction Global warming continues to radically transform the world as we presently know it. These changes encompass multiple social and ecological dimensions; among these are species extinctions, major shifts in wind and water currents, reductions in the pool of fresh water reserves worldwide, and the migration of human and non-human populations around the globe (IPCC, 2014). Specific ecosystems are being fundamentally altered and the Earth as a whole is entering a new period of unbalance and rebalance. In this process
