GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBALIZATION by Andrew Herod ( 9781405110525 )

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GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBALIZATION
A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

By:

Andrew Herod

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JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

1 June, 2008

Series:

Critical Introductions to Geography

Pages:

296

Description:

Challenging such neoliberal assumptions as the "death of distance" and suggestions that geography no longer matters within a shrinking globe, Geographies of Globalization is a critical introduction to the concepts and realities surrounding what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world.

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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

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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

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