Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and Wallerstein. Frank ...(展开全部)

贡德‧弗兰克（Andre Gunder Frank，1929—2005），生于柏林，当代西方知名学者。1957年毕业于美国芝加哥大学，获得经济学博士学位。1978年获巴黎第八大学政治经济学国家博士学位。曾在欧洲、北美和拉丁美洲多所大学执教。弗兰克一直致力于世界体系史、当代国际政治、经济和社会运动的研究，为依附理论代表人物之一，也是全球史研究的开拓者之一。 弗兰克思想敏锐，著作颇丰，一生著书40多部，文章1000多篇。主要作品有：《世界体系：500年还是5000年？》（The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?,与巴里·K.吉尔斯合著）、《白银资本：重视经济全球化中的东方》（ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age）、遗作《19世纪大转型》（Re...(展开全部)

Andre Gunder Frank was a path-breaking scholar in several disciplines over an illustrious and contentious 50-year career. Premier among his many important works is the book, ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age, which sought to correct a Eurocentric worldview of the development of the global political economy. As Gunder Frank continued his research, he realized that many o...(展开全部)

Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social model has come under great strain in many states within the European Union – unemployment, for examp...(展开全部)

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in eve...(展开全部)

The contributors to this volume theorize Asian video cultures in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures to complicate notions of the Asian experience of global media. Whether discussing video platforms in Japan and Indonesia, K-pop reception videos, amateur music videos circulated via microSD cards in India, or the censorship of Bollywood ...(展开全部)

The horror of slavery, says Kevin Bales, is "not confined to history." It is not only possible that slave labor is responsible for the shoes on your feet or your daily consumption of sugar, he writes, the products of forced labor filter even more quietly into a broad portion of daily Western life. "They made the bricks for the factory that made the TV you watch. In Brazil slave...(展开全部)

Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional ...(展开全部)

The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized by an ability to leverage minimal resources, these tradesmen live and die by their ability to adapt their stores to the popular tastes of the day. In Delhi in the 21st century, an extensive network of informal marketplaces, or bazaa...(展开全部)