Overview
Provides a clear definition of the category of a “global problem,” allowing for the exploration of the international dimensions of public problems
Maps the processes and trajectories through which such problems arise and are communicated (or not) across borders and through institutional relays
Synthesizes poorly connected research fields studying the multi-faceted processes of problems, agendas, and policy globalization
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Globalization of Issues and Problems: Frameworks Revisited
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Mapping the Actors and the Social Logics of Issues’ Globalization
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Arenas and Venues: Bringing Scales, Frames and Temporalities Back In
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About this book
This book is an invitation to question conventional and often misleading visions of globalization. No problem is global by nature: issues are transformed by the action of claims-makers to become ‘problems’ debated in supra-national forums, triggering policy choices and policy transformations. Contributions highlight how health issues, environmental issues and/or political issues are framed as global by a set of stakeholders (scientific experts, bureaucrats, political parties or actors, social movements, social networks, firms). As the volume maps the social logic behind the globalization of problems, it also presents an opportunity for the very cross-disciplinary collaboration it calls for: researchers mobilizing the “agenda-setting” paradigm of issue globalization and those working within the “social constructionist” model are both represented here, providing a unique opportunity to examine the dynamics of globalization from the perspectives of (political, media, economic) sociology, international relations, social movement studies, and beyond.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Erik Neveu is Emeritus Professor of Political Science in the Research Team ARENES/CNRS, University of Rennes, France. His research fields covers media and the public sphere, social movements and the construction of public problems.
Muriel Surdez is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her research interest is in the sociology of professions and of public policies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalizing Issues
Book Subtitle: How Claims, Frames, and Problems Cross Borders
Editors: Erik Neveu, Muriel Surdez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52044-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52043-4Published: 08 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52046-5Published: 09 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52044-1Published: 07 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 357
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Cultural Studies, Globalization, Sociological Theory