Books in the Framing the Global series

Branding Bhakti not only investigates the methods the ISKCON movement uses to position itself for growth but highlights devotees' painful and complicated struggles as they work to transform their shrinking, sectarian movement into one with global religious appeal.

Representing Islam considers the complex and multifaceted rise of hip-hop on a global stage and, in doing so, asks broader questions about how Islam is represented in this global community.

In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the Global considers the ways in which power in all its forms--local, international, legal, familial--affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use.

No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions.