Globalization's contradictions
Subtitle: geographies of discipline, destruction, and transformation
By: edited by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen.
Contributors: Conway, Dennis.; Heynen, Nik, 1973-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Globalization; Neoliberalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization and neoliberalism: dominating disciplines; title: "Globalization's dimensions" / by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen; title: The ascendancy of neoliberalism and emergence of contemporary globalization / by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen; title: Globalization's many dimensions; title: Globalization's macro-economic faces; title: Financial globalization; title: Global financial architecture transitions: mutations through "roll-back" neoliberalism to technocratic fixes / by Adam Tickell; title: Multi-local global corporations: new reach - same core locations / by Susan M. Walcott; title: Systems of production and international competitiveness: prospects for the developing nations / by Daniel C. Knudsen and Molly Kotlen; title: Globalization's unruly spaces; title: The globalization of labor; title: Globalization of labor: increasing complexity, more unruly / by Dennis Conway; title: Illegal globalization; title: Unruly spaces: globalization and transnational criminal economies / by Christian Allen; title: Globalization's geo-political faces; title: Political globalization; title: Geo-political globalization: from world systems to global city-systems / by Dennis Conway and Richard Wolfel; title: Geographical globalization; title: Globalization has a home address: the geopolitics of globalization; title: Cultural globalization; title: The globalization of culture: geography and the industrial production of culture / by Don Mitchell and Clayton Rosati; title: The globalization of fear; title: The globalization of fear: fear as a technology of governance / by Byron Miller; title: Alternative visions: constructive; title: Democratic and hopeful; title: Ecological globalization; title: The neoliberalization of the global environment / by Nik Heynen and Jeremia Njeru; title: Globalization's cultural challenges; title: Globalization's cultural challenges: homogenization, hybridization and heightened identity / by Nanda R. Shrestha and Dennis Conway; title: Globalization from below; title: Globalization from below: coordinating global resistance: alternative social forums, civil society, and grassroots networks / by Dennis Conway; title: Towards "fair globalization"; title: Towards "fair globalization" : opposing neoliberal destruction, relying on democratic institutions & local empowerment, and sustaining human development / by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen.