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