Download or read book Globalization and the Margins written by R. Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-09-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization has become one of the dominant ideas of recent times. However, is the debate on globalization as global as it ought to be? In this book Grant and Rennie Short have brought together prominent experts in the field to consider how globalization affects marginalized countries and groups. A variety of case studies provide a unique assessment of the issue of globalization and offer a new look at the relationship between the global and the local.