Globalization, 3rd edition Theory and Practice

by Kofman, Eleonore; Youngs, Gillian

• ISBN13: 9780826493651
• ISBN10: 0826493653
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-28
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This fully revised textbook focuses on the major topics of globalization.

Author Biography

Eleonore Kofman is Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship at Middlesex University Gillian Youngs is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester

Table of Contents

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