The Cost of
Globalization
Dangers to the Earth
and Its People
Julian E. Kunnie
$35 softcover (6 ¥ 9) ISBN 978-0-7864-9608-2
Photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Ebook ISBN 978-1-4766-1977-4 2015
“Julian Kunnie’s book examines some of the major negative effects of globalization, particularly on disenfranchised and marginalized people, including poor
and indigenous groups, as well as on the environment and climate change and
global warming. Given the various areas covered, this book can easily be adopted in numerous courses in the social sciences and
humanities and should be required reading for all interested in understanding the complex dynamics of globalization, by an
individual who has traveled the world doing research and teaching.”—Celestino Fernández, University of Arizona.
Over the past 25 years, numerous books have been written on the advantages and disadvantages of globalization. But the
issues arising from rapid global integration have generally been treated in isolation by most academic works. This volume examines the many pitfalls of globalization from the perspective of impoverished and indigenous peoples, including the widening
wealth gap, the struggle for restoration of dispossessed lands and cultural rights, global warming and ecological annihilation, and
the experiences of women in underdeveloped regions who receive little benefit from their labor and are subject to violence. The
United States’ growing prison industrial complex is discussed as an outgrowth of globalization practices that restrict economic
mobility. The author concludes with a call for reassessing current ways of living and proposes recreating cultures of conservation
and sustainable economies in harmony with the Earth.
Julian E. Kunnie is a professor of religious, Latin American, Middle Eastern and North African studies at the University of
Arizona. His articles have appeared in the African Studies Review, the Black Scholar, the Journal of African American History, the
Journal of the African American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Pan African Studies, and other noted journals and publications. He has traveled extensively doing research, teaching, and lecturing around the world. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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