| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-280) and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Globalization.
|
|
Neoliberalism.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
|
|
Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
|
|
Neoliberalism. (OCoLC)fst01737382
|
|
Internationalisatie.
|
|
Neoliberalisme.
|
|
Geografische aspecten.
|
| Added Author |
Heynen, Nik, 1973-
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Conway, Dennis, 1941- Globalization's contradictions. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006 0415770610 0415770629 (DLC) 2006005462 (OCoLC)64097355 |
| ISBN |
0203962966 (electronic bk.) |
|
9780203962961 (electronic bk.) |
|
0415770610 (Cloth) |
|
0415770629 (softcover ; alk. paper) |
|
9780415770613 (hbk.) |
|
9780415770620 (paperback) |
|
9781843929345 |
|
1843929341 |
|
