An Unruly World?

by Herod, Andrew; O Tuathail, Gearoid; Roberts, Susan M.

• ISBN13: 9780415169325
• ISBN10: 0415169321
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Examining how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game, in a wide variety of different places, domains, and sectors,An Unruly Worldfocuses on a wide range of issues: from analysis of "soft capitalism", and the post-Cold War organizational drives of international trade unions, to the clamor of states to reinvent welfare policy, and the efforts of citizen groups to challenge trade and financial regimes. This book brilliantly argues that the rules governing the global economy today are more strictly enforced by international organizations and rhetoric than ever before.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xii
Negotiating Unruly Problematics	p. 1
Bibliography	p. 21
The Rise of Soft Capitalism	p. 25
Global Flowmations, Local Fundamentalisms, and Fast Geopolitics	p. 72
From Federal Welfare to Local Workfare?	p. 95
Geo-Governance in Trade and Finance and Political Geographies of Dissent	p. 116
Producing Globalization Apparel and the Australian State	p. 135
Of Blocs, Flows and Networks	p. 162
Maghrebin Immigration, France, and the Political Economy of the "spatial Vent"	p. 196
Excavating Nature	p. 219
Index	p. 245
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