Globalization's contradictions : : geographies of discipline, destruction and transformation / / edited by Dennis Conway, Nik Heynen.

• TeilnehmendeR: Heynen, Nik,; Conway, Dennis,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages)

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 and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, among other disastrous disruptions, are also globalization's legacy. This collection of geographical treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization on peoples' lives. Globalizations Contradictions firstly introduces globalization in all its intricacy and contrariness, followed on by substantive coverage of globalization's dimensions. Other areas that are covered in depth are: globalization's macro-economic faces globalization's unruly spaces globalization's geo-political faces ecological globalization globalization's cultural challenges globalization from below fair globalization. Globalizations Contradictions is a critical examination of the continuing role of international and supra-national institutions and their involvement in the political economic management and determination of global restructuring. Deliberately, this collection raises questions, even as it offers geographical insights and thoughtful assessments of globalization's multifaceted 'faces and spaces.'

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.