Globalization's contradictions : geographies of discipline, destruction and transformation / / edited by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen.
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 an...
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Part I Globalization and neoliberalism: Dominating disciplines; 1 Globalization's dimensions; 2 The ascendancy of neoliberalism and emergence of contemporary globalization; Part II Globalization's many dimensions; Globalization's macroeconomic faces; 3 Global financial architecture transitions: Mutations through "roll-back" neoliberalism to technocratic fixes; 4 Multi-local global corporations: New reach - same core locations
- 5 Systems of production and international competitiveness: Prospects for the developing nationsGlobalization's unruly spaces; 6 Globalization of labor: Increasing complexity, more unruly; 7 Unruly spaces: Globalization and transnational criminal economies; Globalization's geopolitical faces; 8 Geopolitical globalization: From world systems to global city systems; 9 Globalization has a home address: The geopolitics of globalization; 10 The globalization of culture: Geography and the industrial production of culture; 11 The globalization of fear: Fear as a technology of governance
- Part III Alternative visions: Constructive, democratic and hopeful12 The neoliberalization of the global environment; 13 Globalization's cultural challenges: Homogenization, hybridization and heightened identity; 14 Globalization from below: Coordinating global resistance, alternative social forums, civil society and grassroots networks; 15 Towards "fair globalization": Opposing neoliberal destruction, relying on democratic institutions and local empowerment, and sustaining human development; References; Index