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