Overview

Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being `disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, `transformed’ by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, among other disastrous disruptions, are also globalization’s legacy. This collection of geographical treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization on peoples’ lives. Globalizations Contradictions firstly introduces globalization in all its intricacy and contrariness, followed on by substantive coverage of globalization’s dimensions. Other areas that are covered in depth are: Globalization’s Macro-economic Faces Globalization’s Unruly Spaces Globalization’s Geo-political Faces Ecological Globalization Globalization’s Cultural Challenges Globalization from Below Fair Globalization Globalizations Contradictions is a critical examination of the continuing role of international and supra-national institutions and their involvement in the political economic management and determination of global restructuring. Deliberately, this collection raises questions, even as it offers geographical insights and thoughtful assessments of globalization’s multifaceted `faces and spaces.’

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Author:   Dennis Conway ,  Nik Heynen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780415770620

ISBN 10:   0415770629
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   17 August 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section I: Globalization and Neoliberalism: Dominating Disciplines Chapter 1. `Globalization's Dimensions' by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen Chapter 2. `The Ascendancy of Neoliberalism and Emergence of Contemporary Globalization' by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen Section II: Globalization's Many Dimensions Globalization's Macro-Economic Faces Financial Globalization Chapter 3. `Global Financial Architecture Transitions: Mutations through `Roll-back' Neoliberalism to Technocratic Fixes' by Adam Tickell Chapter 4. `Multi-local Global Corporations: New Reach - Same Core Locations' by Susan M.Walcott Chapter 5. `Systems of Production and International Competitiveness: Prospects for the Developing Nations' by Daniel C. Knudsen and Molly Kotlen Globalization's Unruly Spaces The Globalization of Labor Chapter 6. `Globalization of Labor: Increasing Complexity, More Unruly' by Dennis Conway Illegal Globalization Chapter 7. `Unruly spaces: Globalization and Transnational Criminal Economies' by Christian Allen Globalization's Geo-Political Faces Political Globalization Chapter 8. `Geo-Political Globalization: From World Systems to Global City Systems' by Dennis Conway and Richard Wolfel Geographical Globalization Chapter 9. `Globalization has a Home Address: The Geopolitics of Globalization' Cultural Globalization Chapter 10. `The Globalization of Culture: Geography and the Industrial Production of Culture' by Don Mitchell and Clayton Rosati The Globalization of Fear Chapter 11. `The Globalization of Fear: Fear as a Technology of Governance' by Byron Miller Section III: AlternativeVisions: Constructive, Democratic and Hopeful Ecological Globalization Chapter 12. `The Neoliberalization of the Global Environment' by Nik Heynen and Jeremia Njeru Globalization's Cultural Challenges Chapter 13. `Globalization's Cultural Challenges: Homogenization, Hybridization and Heightened Identity' by Nanda R. Shrestha and Dennis Conway Globalization from Below Chapter 14. `Globalization from Below: Coordinating Global Resistance: Alternative Social Forums, Civil Society and Grassroots Networks' by Dennis Conway Towards `Fair Globalization' Chapter 15. Towards `Fair Globalization' : Opposing Neoliberal Destruction, Relying on democratic Institutions & Local Empowerment, and Sustaining Human Development,' by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen

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