This volume provides students with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural and ecological dimensions of change at every geographical scale from the global to the local.

Ron Johnston is Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol.

Peter J. Taylor is Professor of Geography at the University of Loughborough.

Michael Watts is Chancellor's Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

List of Figures

viii

List of Tables

x

List of Contributors

xi

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

xviii

Geography/Globalization

1

(18)

Peter J. Taylor

Michael J. Watts

R. J. Johnston

Part I Geoeconomic Change

19

(82)

Introduction to Part I: The Reconfiguration of Late Twentieth-Century Capitalism

21

(8)

A Hyperactive World

29

(14)

Nigel Thrift

Trading Worlds

43

(14)

Peter Dicken

From Farming to Agribusiness: Global Agri-Food Networks

57

(11)

Sarah Whatmore

Transnational Corporations and Global Divisions of Labor

68

(10)

Richard Wright

Global Change in the World of Organized Labor

78

(10)

Andrew Herod

Trajectories of Development Theory: Capitalism, Socialism, and Beyond

88

(13)

David Slater

Part II Geopolitical Change

101

(90)

Introduction to Part II: After the Cold War

103

(14)

Democracy and Human Rights After the Cold War

117

(13)

John Agnew

The Renaissance of Nationalism

130

(13)

Nuala C. Johnson

Global Regulation and Trans-State Organization

143

(15)

Susan M. Roberts

The Rise of the Workfare State

158

(16)

Joe Painter

Post-Cold War Geopolitics: Contrasting Superpowers in a World of Global Dangers

174

(17)

Gearoid O Tuathail

Part III Geosocial Change

191

(84)

Introduction to Part III: People in Turmoil

193

(5)

Population Crises: From the Global to the Local

198

(18)

Elspeth Graham

Paul Boyle

Global Change and Patterns of Death and Disease

216

(20)

John Eyles

Changing Women's Status in a Global Economy

236

(12)

Susan Christopherson

Stuck in Place: Children and the Globalization of Social Reproduction

248

(13)

Cindi Katz

Race and Globalization

261

(14)

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Part IV Geocultural Change

275

(80)

Introduction to Part IV: Modernity, Identity, and Machineries of Meaning

277

(6)

Consumption in a Globalizing World

283

(13)

Peter Jackson

Understanding Diversity: The Problem of/for ``Theory''

296

(14)

Linda McDowell

Resisting and Reshaping Destructive Development: Social Movements and Globalizing Networks

310

(18)

Paul Routledge

World Cities and the Organization of Global Space

328

(12)

Paul L. Knox

The Emerging Geographies of Cyberspace

340

(15)

Rob Kitchin

Martin Dodge

Part V Geoenvironmental Change

355

(86)

Introduction to Part V: A Burden Too Far?

357

(7)

The Earth Transformed: Trends, Trajectories, and Patterns

364

(13)

William B. Meyer

B. L. Turner II

The Earth as Input: Resources

377

(14)

Jody Emel

Gavin Bridge

Rob Krueger

The Earth as Output: Pollution

391

(21)

David K. C. Jones

Sustainable Development?

412

(15)

W. M. Adams

Environmental Governance

427

(14)

Simon Dalby

Part VI Conclusion

441

(12)

Remapping the World: What Sort of Map? What Sort of World?

443

(10)

Peter J. Taylor

Michael J. Watts

R. J. Johnston

Bibliography

453

(46)

Index

499

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