Globalization's contradictions : geographies of discipline, destruction and transformation /
Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a restructuring of everyone's lives. This collection of treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization.
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London ; New York :
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Globalization and neoliberalism : dominating disciplines
- Globalization's dimensions / Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen
- The ascendancy of neoliberalism and emergence of contemporary globalization / Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen
- Globalization's many dimensions
- Globalization's macroeconomic faces
- Global financial architecture transitions : mutations through "roll-back" neoliberalism to technocratic fixes / Adam Tickell
- Multi-local global corporations : new reach
- same core locations / Susan M. Walcott
- Systems of production and international competitiveness : prospects for the developing nations / Daniel C. Knudsen and Molly Kotlen
- Globalization's unruly spaces
- Globalization of labor : increasing complexity, more unruly / Dennis Conway
- Unruly spaces : globalization and transnational criminal economies / Christian Allen
- Globalization's geopolitical faces
- Geo-political globalization : from world systems to global city-systems / Dennis Conway and Richard Wolfel
- Globalization has a home address : the geopolitics of globalization / John Agnew
- The globalization of culture : geography and the industrial production of culture / Don Mitchell and Clayton Rosati
- The globalization of fear : fear as a technology of governance / Byron Miller
- Alternative visions: constructive, democratic and hopeful
- The neoliberalization of the global environment / Nik Heynen and Jeremia Njeru
- Globalization's cultural challenges : homogenization, hybridization and heightened identity / Nanda R. Shrestha and Dennis Conway
- Globalization from below : coordinating global resistance, alternative social forums, civil society, and grassroots networks / Dennis Conway
- Towards "fair globalization" : opposing neoliberal destruction, relying on democratic institutions and local empowerment, and sustaining human development / Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen.