Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone’s lives. People are being ‘disciplined’ by neoliberal economic agendas, ‘transformed’ by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, among other disastrous disruptions, are also globalization’s legacy. This collection of geographical treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization on peoples’ lives. Globalizations Contradictions firstly introduces globalization in all its intricacy and contrariness, followed on by substantive coverage of globalization’s dimensions. Other areas that are covered in depth are:
• globalization’s macro-economic faces
• globalization’s unruly spaces
• globalization’s geo-political faces
• ecological globalization
• globalization’s cultural challenges
• globalization from below
• fair globalization.
Globalizations Contradictions is a critical examination of the continuing role of international and supra-national institutions and their involvement in the political economic management and determination of global restructuring. Deliberately, this collection raises questions, even as it offers geographical insights and thoughtful assessments of globalization’s multifaceted ‘faces and spaces.’
Author(s): Dennis Conway, Nik Heynen
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2006 | 2017
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 304
Tags: Globalization; Neoliberalism
Book Cover
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Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
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Contributors
Preface
Part I Globalization and neoliberalism: Dominating disciplines
1 Globalization’s dimensions
2 The ascendancy of neoliberalism and emergence of contemporary globalization
Part II Globalization’s many dimensions
Globalization’s macroeconomic faces
3 Global financial architecture transitions: Mutations through “roll-back” neoliberalism to technocratic fixes
4 Multi-local global corporations: New reach – same core locations
5 Systems of production and international competitiveness: Prospects for the developing nations
Globalization’s unruly spaces
6 Globalization of labor: Increasing complexity, more unruly
7 Unruly spaces: Globalization and transnational criminal economies
Globalization’s geopolitical faces
8 Geopolitical globalization: From world systems to global city systems
9 Globalization has a home address: The geopolitics of globalization
10 The globalization of culture: Geography and the industrial production of culture
11 The globalization of fear: Fear as a technology of governance
Part III Alternative visions: Constructive, democratic and hopeful
12 The neoliberalization of the global environment
13 Globalization’s cultural challenges: Homogenization, hybridization and heightened identity
14 Globalization from below: Coordinating global resistance, alternative social forums, civil society and grassroots networks
15 Towards “fair globalization”: Opposing neoliberal destruction, relying on democratic institutions and local empowerment, and sustaining human development
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