| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a restructuring of everyone's lives. This collection of treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-280) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Globalization.
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Neoliberalism.
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globalism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
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Globalization
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Neoliberalism
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Internationalisatie.
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Neoliberalisme.
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Geografische aspecten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heynen, Nik, 1973-
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| LC no. |
2006005462 |
| ISBN |
0203962966 |
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9780203962961 |
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9781843929345 |
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1843929341 |
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9786610628254 |
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6610628254 |
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9781135986209 |
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1135986207 |
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9781135986247 |
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113598624X |
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9781135986254 |
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1135986258 |
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