المشاكل العالمية وثقافة الرأسمالية

by Richard H. Robbins

تزود النسخة الثالثة من كتاب المشاكل العالمية وثقافة الرأسمالية، قرائها بإطار إنساني واقتصادي وتاريخي من أجل فهم أصول المشاكل العالمية ولماذا تسببت... العولمة والتوسع العالمي لحضارة الرأسمالية بإشعال الاحتجاجات والمقاومة، وما هي الخطوات التي يتوجب القيام بها من أجل حل المشاكل العالمية، تساعد المعلومات المحدثة عبر الكتاب، الطلاب على تكوين نظرة حديثة لسرعة حدوث التغييرات العالمية وكما كتب أحد مراجعي الكتاب:
في عالم اليوم من الحضارات العالمية، يعتمد مفتاح حل المشاكل المستقبلية على فهمنا لحضارات اليوم، يعمل كتاب "روبنز" على الإفصاح عن الموضوع بوضوح وبطريقة سهلة القراءة. إنه كتاب يجب أن يطلب من كل طالب جامعة أن يقرأه.
يتخذ الكتاب توجهاً نحو الطلاب ويقدم مقاربة قائمة على المشاكل ويركز في هذا الصدد على المشاكل الاجتماعية مثل الجوع والفقر وتدمير البيئة والمرض ومشاكل الجنوسة والنزاعات الاجتماعية.
-يساعد الطلاب على تفهم الجذور الحضارية للمشاكل العالمية والتغييرات التي يتوجب القيام بها لحل المشاكل.
-فصل الختام في الكتاب "بناء المواطن النشط" يزود الطلاب بطرق لفهم النشاط الاجتماعي.
-في الكتاب نقاش حول التنمية الاقتصادية، يقدم للطلاب منظوراً حول المشاكل الموجودة ضمن خطط التنمية الاقتصادية (الفصل 6).
-هناك مادة جديدة حول الإرهاب (الفصلين 11 و13)، والعبودية في الاقتصاد العالمي (الفصل 2)، وهي مادة تتناول القضايا المرتبطة بعالم اليوم.
-هناك نقاش مستفيض حول النزاعات العرقية والتطهير العرقي (الفصل 10)، ودور ومعنى النقود (الفصل 1،2،3،4)، وخصخصة العسكر (الفصل 4)، وهو نقاش يعطي عمقاً أكبر للنقاشات داخل غرف الدراسة الجامعية.
-كذلك توجد مقدمات موسعة في الأجزاء

Genres: Anthropology, Nonfiction, Economics, Politics, History, Textbooks, Geography

679 pages, Paperback

First published August 14, 1998

Reviews

[Sam Quigley · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can imagine loving this as an 18-year-old who'd never before given any serious thought to the way the world works; which is to say, it reads as if it was written by a 21-year-old who's recently learnt a bit about how the world works. As a dyed-in-the-wool neo-Marxist, of course I don't mind reading affirmations of my own worldview, but that this book is a prescribed university-level anthropology text is astonishing.

[mya!! · Rating 5 out of 5]

richard robbins and rachel dowty you are brilliant

[Samuel · Rating 5 out of 5]

a must read for anyone who wants to know how the world became what it is today...

[Sennsec · Rating 5 out of 5]

A.

[comrade mum · Rating 1 out of 5]

first DNF of 2024 - this just couldn’t hold my attention

[trillest · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read it in college. Changed my life.

[Faisal Jamal · Rating 3 out of 5]

يناقش بعض القضايا التي تؤثر عليها الرأسمالية المتوحشة حول العالم

[Marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think the first half of this books was way better than the second half. The author trys to tackle quite a bit of material in this 400 page book, and some parts were definitely better written and thought out than others. AMong its strengths were the chapters on the history of corporation and the development of modern day capitialism, the discussion of perceived obsolence and the history of advertising, and the integration of the culture of capitialism and issues with health and disease, labor, and environmental degradation. The chapters that need further connections were those about rebillion, global antisystemic revolt, and tieing togther religious fundamentalism. I think the author makes some connections that were not clear, and needed a little bit more research, and from my own studies of 1968, some of the connections were just off. Besides this does an excellent job in the conclusion breaking down the use of GDP and the different forms of capital, and how they are all integrated and can postively and negatively integrated- the author's final message- a call for systems thinking to work through the problems of the culture of capitialism and global problems, was definitely the best and most hopeflu message. So overall, a good read, just maybe the author tried to take on too much...

On a side note..for some reason I was convinced the author was a woman the entire time I read it..I had to keep reminding myself it was a man..I don't know where this unnatural bias came from.

[Rachel Dowty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good introduction to the problems of consumer culture on a worldwide scale. Best to stay up with latest edition available.

[Ariel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my favorite textbook because Robbins doesn't pretend to be neutral and rips capitalism a new one.

[Ammar · Rating 5 out of 5]

essential guide to how capitalism works and impacts society

[Simon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Left-wing criticism. Interesting, but also not.

[Erin]

Read for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class in college.

[Aiyana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good for a Global Studies 101 survey class.

[Sadie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for class and was honestly some of the best readings I did in college.... great topics and well-written for a textbook (i.e. not the dullest thing ever written). I did all the readings honestly

[Claire S]

from 'The Yes Men'..