Geographies of Globalization: A Critical IntroductionISBN: 978-1-4051-1052-5
Hardcover
296 pages
February 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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- 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’