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Globalization, 3rd edition Theory and Practice

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    9780826493644

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    0826493645

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-04-28
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

Globalization and related issues of power and identity are central concerns in international studies, whether viewed from political, economic, spatial or human perspectives. The substantially revised and fully updated third edition of this major collection brings together a multi-disciplinary group of international scholars to interrogate globalization in theory and practice.

Table of Contents

Contributorsp. vii
Prefacep. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Globalization, Political Economy and Political Geography
Complex Hegemony and Twenty-first Century Globalizationp. 3
Political Geography and Globalization in the Twenty-first Centuryp. 14
North-South Debates
Geographies of Global Environmental Securityp. 29
Imperial Powers and Democratic Imaginations in a Global Erap. 40
Globalization, Cultures of Land, Home and Natural Hazard: The Case of Montserrat in the Caribbeanp. 57
Global Civil Society and Global Politicsp. 73
Development Hegemonies and Local Outcomes: Women and NGOs in Low-Income Countriesp. 87
Gender, Sexualities and Global Processes
Shifting Ground(s), Remapping Strategies and Triad Analyticsp. 101
Gender Inequalities and Feminist Politics in a Global Perspectivep. 115
Trading Places under Neoliberal Empire: Rethinking Inter-nationalized Feminist Resistance and Solidarities in the Context of 'North America'p. 130
International Sex and Servicep. 144
The Global Politics of Sexual Dissidence: Migration and Diasporap. 159
Politics and Economics of Movements and Space
The Politics of Migration Regulation in the Era of Globalizationp. 175
Citizenship, Migration and Globalization: An Issue of Social Cohesionp. 191
Advertising and Cities: A Relational Geography of Globalization in the Early Twenty-first Centuryp. 205
The Governmentalization of World Politicsp. 221
Knowledge and Technologies
Globalization in the World Trade Organization: Power, Knowledge and the Reproduction of Inequality in Intellectual Property Governancep. 239
The Multimedia Industry: Networks and Regional Development in a Globalized Economyp. 250
Cyber-states and the 'Sovereignty' of Virtual Communitiesp. 265
The Nuclear Condition and the Soft-Shell of Territorialityp. 277
Indexp. 289
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