Geographies of Globalization
A Critical Introduction
Critical Introductions to Geography
1. Edition December 2008
296 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Exploring a wide range of issues, from the integration of the world
economy to how contemporary processes are shaping and shaped by
nation-states and how workers are organizing transnationally in
response to transformations in the planet's economic
geography, Geographies of Globalization is a critical
examination of what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary
world.
* Challenges neoliberal assumptions on the nature of
globalization
* Provides a conceptual overview of how globalization is a
spatial process and of its relation to capitalism
* Explores whether we are in fact living in a more
'globalized' world or only in a more
'internationalized' one
* Considers arguments concerning whether
'globalization' is a new phenomenon or simply the
latest manifestation of processes many hundreds of years in the
making
* Focuses on how nation-states have shaped, and been shaped by,
contemporary processes of 'globalization', how
'globalization' has been imagined discursively, and how
workers are responding to such processes
* Explores how workers are creating new organizing strategies in
response to 'globalization'
List of Tables.
Preface.
A Note on Terminology, Naming, and the Calculation of Historical
Monetary Values.
List of Abbreviations.
1. Introduction.
2. Envisioning Global Visions.
3. Interpreting Globalization.
4. Talking Globalization.
5. Globalizing Empires.
6. Manufacturing Globalization.
7. Governing Globalization.
8. Globalizing Labor.
9. Conclusion.
References.
Index
perspectives on globalization in a way that makes them easily
accessible without dumbing them down.? (CHOICE, October
2009)
"An important introduction to the debates about the geography of
globalization. Critical but never shrill, the book works unerringly
to expose and render intelligible the intellectual and practical
pressure points that are the result of the multiple processes of
globalization. As good a starting point as any you'll find."
Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick
"Writing for an upper level undergraduate readership, Andrew
Herod has produced a challenging critical interpretation of
geographies of globalization that is both historically informed and
geographically sensitive."
Peter Dicken, University of Manchester
