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Geographies of power : placing scale /

Following the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, terrorism has joined economic restructuring, climate change, environmental degradation, and the AIDS pandemic as another issue warranting 'global' attention. The contributors to this book explore the nexus of power and...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Herod, Andrew, 1964-, Wright, Melissa W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2002.
Subjects:
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Terrorism > United States.
Globalization.
International relations.
World politics > 1995-2005.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: PRrt : Theorizing Scal e 15
  • introduction: Theorizing Scale 17
  • An, dr7ew 1r, od iand Meissa W, Wright
  • SBeyond Globa vs. Local: Econom ic Politics Outside
  • the Binary Frame 25
  • I.K. Gibson-Graham
  • 2 he Urbana as an Obect of Study in Global Cities
  • iteratures: Representational Practices and Conceptions
  • of Place and Scale 61
  • 3 Globalization, the Regulation Approach, and the
  • Politics of Scale 85
  • Kev1n R. Cox
  • 4 Retheorizing the Scale of Globalization: Topologies
  • Actor-networks, and Cosmopolitanism 115
  • Alan L atfhian
  • Part II Rhetorics of Scale 145
  • Introduction: Rhetorics of Scale 147
  • Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright
  • 5 Adventure Travel for the Mind'(: Analyzing the
  • United States Virtual Trade Mission's Promotion of
  • Globalization through Discourse and Corporate
  • Media Strategies 54
  • Ken Hillis, Michael Petit and Altha J Cravey
  • 6 Popular Culture, Academic Discourse, and the
  • Incongruities of Scale 71
  • Andrew Kirby
  • 7 Maintaining National Identity at the Border:
  • Scale, Masculinity, and the Polcing of Immigration
  • in Southern California 192
  • Susan P. Mains
  • Part II: Scales of Praxis 215
  • Introduction: Scales of Praxis 21 7
  • Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright
  • 8 Contested Landscapes of Labor: Rivai Unionism in the
  • Farm Implements industry 224
  • Jeff R Crump
  • 9 The Politics of Environmental justice as the Politics of
  • Scale: St. James Parish, Louisiana, an the Shintech
  • Siting Controversy 249
  • Hilda E. Kutz
  • 10 Networks, Governance, and the Politics of Scae:
  • Inter-urban Networks and the European Union 274
  • Helga Leitner Claire Pavlik and Eric Sheppnrd.