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Geographies of Globalization Andrew Herod

Geographies of Globalization By Andrew Herod

Geographies of Globalization by Andrew Herod


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Challenging such neoliberal assumptions as the death of distance and suggestions that geography no longer matters within a shrinking globe, Geographies of Globalization is a critical introduction to the concepts and realities surrounding what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world.

Geographies of Globalization Summary

Geographies of Globalization: A Critical Introduction by Andrew Herod

Exploring a wide range of issues, from the integration of the world economy to how contemporary processes are shaping and shaped by nation-states and how workers are organizing transnationally in response to transformations in the planet's economic geography, Geographies of Globalization is a critical examination of what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world. Challenges neoliberal assumptions on the nature of globalization Provides a conceptual overview of how globalization is a spatial process and of its relation to capitalism Explores whether we are in fact living in a more 'globalized' world or only in a more 'internationalized' one Considers arguments concerning whether 'globalization' is a new phenomenon or simply the latest manifestation of processes many hundreds of years in the making Focuses on how nation-states have shaped, and been shaped by, contemporary processes of 'globalization', how 'globalization' has been imagined discursively, and how workers are responding to such processes Explores how workers are creating new organizing strategies in response to 'globalization'

Geographies of Globalization Reviews

AHerod presents in a concise manner a number of critical perspectives on globalization in a way that makes them easily accessible without dumbing them down.A (CHOICE, October 2009) An important introduction to the debates about the geography of globalization. Critical but never shrill, the book works unerringly to expose and render intelligible the intellectual and practical pressure points that are the result of the multiple processes of globalization. As good a starting point as any you'll find. Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick Writing for an upper level undergraduate readership, Andrew Herod has produced a challenging critical interpretation of geographies of globalization that is both historically informed and geographically sensitive. Peter Dicken, University of Manchester

About Andrew Herod

Andrew Herod is Professor of Geography, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, at the University of Georgia, USA. He has written widely on issues of globalization and labour politics. His books include The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy (with Luis Aguiar) (Blackwell, 2006), Geographies of Power: Placing Scale (with Melissa Wright) (Blackwell, 2002), Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism (2001), Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism (1998), and An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography (with Gearoid O Tuathail, and Susan Roberts) (1998). He is also an elected official, being a member of the government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. A Note on Terminology, Naming, and the Calculation of Historical Monetary Values. List of Abbreviations. 1. Introduction. 2. Envisioning Global Visions. 3. Interpreting Globalization. 4. Talking Globalization. 5. Globalizing Empires. 6. Manufacturing Globalization. 7. Governing Globalization. 8. Globalizing Labor. 9. Conclusion. References. Index

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GOR007009723
9781405110914
1405110910
Geographies of Globalization: A Critical Introduction by Andrew Herod
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20081219
296
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