Globalisation and the Third World

This book examines the changing position of the Developing World within the world system. It focuses on particular issues which cut across communities nations regions and in consequence the world. These include migration health and disease the media transnational corporations religion and political and economic institutions. The contributors draw on a wealth of illustrations and global examples to examine topics such as HIV/AIDS transmission the mediatized Gulf War consumption patterns the Third World in the First Orientalism and Islam environmental and urban movements liberation theology in Latin America and the impact of the media. This book provides a critical introduction to the Third World around the unifying theme of globalisation.