Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   David Featherstone (Liverpool University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781405158084

ISBN 10:   1405158085
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   12 September 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

Series Editors’ Preface viii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: Space, Contestation and the Political 1 Part I Networking the Political 13 1 Place and the Relational Construction of Political Identities 15 2 Geographies of Solidarities and Antagonisms 36 Part II Geographies of Connection and Contestation 57 3 Labourers' Politics and Mercantile Networks 59 4 Making Democratic Spatial Practices 79 5 Counter-Global Networks and the Making of Subaltern Nationalisms 99 Part III Political Geographies of the Counter-Globalization Movement 119 6 Geographies of Power and the Counter-Globalization Movement 121 7 Constructing Transnational Political Networks 149 Conclusion: Towards Politicized Geographies of Connection 177 Notes 190 References 196 Index 221

Reviews

This optimistic take on the role of political contestation in world-making processes is a welcome change from the gloom and doom so typical of other geographical texts. (Environment and Planning A, 2009)

Author Information

David Featherstone is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. He has key research interests in space, politics and resistance and has published papers in several journals, including Society and Space, Antipode and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions