Geographies of Power (eBook, PDF)

Placing Scale
Redaktion: Herod, Andrew; Wright, Melissa W.

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Produktbeschreibung

At a time when references to things 'global' have gained more currency than ever, this book explores the nexus of power and space behind the politics of geographical scale.

• Explores the nexus of power and space behind the rescaling of contemporary social, economic and political life.
• Organized into three sections on theorizing scale, the discourses and rhetorics of scale, and scales of activism.
• Will stimulate discussion about how conceptions and visions of scale inform all aspects of social life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470775202
• Artikelnr.: 38184798

Autorenporträt

Andrew Herod is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism (2001), editor of Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism (1998), and co-editor of An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography (1998). Melissa W. Wright is Assistant Professor of Geography and Women's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She has published articles in Environment and Planning A, Antipode, Public Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Social Text, and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.
List of Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Placing Scale: An Introduction. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).
Part I: Theorizing Scale.
Introduction: Theorizing Scale. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).
1. Beyond Global vs. Local: Economic Politics Outside the Binary Frame. (J.
K. Gibson-Graham).
2. The Urban as an Object of Study in Global Cities Literatures:
Representational Practices and Conceptions of Place and Scale. (Eugene J.
McCann).
3. "Globalization," the "Regulation Approach," and the Politics of Scale.
(Kevin Cox).
4. Retheorizing the Scale of Globalization: Topologies, Actor-Networks, and
Cosmopolitanism. (Alan Latham).
Part II: Rhetoric of Scale.
Introduction: Rhetoric of Scale. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).
5. "Adventure Travel for the Mind'': Analyzing the United States Virtual
Trade Mission's Promotion of Globalization through Discourse and Corporate
Media Strategies. (Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Altha J. Cravey).
6. Popular Culture, Academic Discourse, and the Incongruities of Scale.
(Andrew Kirby).
7. Maintaining National Identity at the Border: Scale, Masculinity, and the
Policing of Immigration in Southern California. (Susan P. Mains).
Part III: Scales of Praxis.
Introduction: Scales of Praxis. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).
8. Contested Landscapes of Labor: Rival Unionism in the Farm Implements
Industry. (Jeff Crump).
9. The Politics of Environmental Justice as the Politics of Scale: St.
James Parish, Louisiana and the Shintech Siting Controversy. (Hilda Kurtz).
10. Networks, Governance, and the Politics of Scale: Inter-Urban Networks
and the European Union. (Helga Leitner, Claire Pavlik, and Eric Sheppard).
Index.

Rezensionen

"Anyone who has grown weary of the shallow and circularglobalization debate, and the political fatalism that it breeds,should read this book. Pushing beyond the conception ofglobalization as a force of nature, the contributors to this volumeask a series of fresh and provocative questions about geographicalscale, its social relations, and its political construction. Butrather than simply asking the scale question, Power, Politics,and Geography explores the answers. It is the best collectionyet on the theory and praxis of geographical scale." JamiePeck, Professor of Geography and Sociology, University ofWisconsin-Madison

This exciting book levers open a space for a politics thatregards space as a living thing rather than a dead backdrop. Indoing so, it challenges a whole series of preconceptions about whatpolitics is or might be, and begins to formulate means of eatingaway at the foundations of concepts like globalization that sooften are used by the powerful to peddle one world fits allsolutions." Professor Nigel Thrift, University ofBristol

"The book sets out to be an intervention in, and make acontribution to, a growing literature on questions of scale,rescaling, and politics of scale [...] this book is a welcomeaddition to what remains a very fertile and promising debate"Erik Swyngedouw, Environment and Planning

"Herod and Wright's book is well organized andcoherent ... [Geographies of Power: Placing Scale]provides a useful overview of the new conceptualizations ofgeographical scale that are being developed by radicalgeographers."
American Journal of Sociology