Andrew Herod

Broschiertes Buch

Geographies of Globalization

A Critical Introduction

Beschreibung

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'

Autor

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 Gearóid Ó Tuathail, and Susan Roberts) (1998). He is also an elected official, being a member of the government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia.

Produktdetails

• Critical Introductions to Geography
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405110910
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 172mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781405110914
• ISBN-10: 1405110910
• Artikelnr.: 25612788

Rezensionen

"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

?Herod presents in a concise manner a number of criticalperspectives on globalization in a way that makes them easilyaccessible without dumbing them down.? (CHOICE, October2009)

"An important introduction to the debates about the geography ofglobalization. Critical but never shrill, the book works unerringlyto expose and render intelligible the intellectual and practicalpressure points that are the result of the multiple processes ofglobalization. As good a starting point as any you'll find."
Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick

"Writing for an upper level undergraduate readership, AndrewHerod has produced a challenging critical interpretation ofgeographies of globalization that is both historically informed andgeographically sensitive."
Peter Dicken, University of Manchester