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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808674303321

Autore

Flusty Steven <1963, >

Titolo

De-Coca-colonization : making the globe from the inside out / / by Steven Flusty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-94333-8

0-203-60398-2

1-135-94334-6

1-280-04846-8

0-203-48554-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Globalization - Social aspects

Globalization - Economic aspects

Anti-globalization movement

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From the world to the city to the street, and back again -- The world defined -- The world in the city -- The world on the street -- Hard city, soft planet -- The city hardens -- Planet softeners -- Miscege-nation -- The clash of globalizations -- The limits of Coca-colonization -- De-Coca-colonization classic.

Sommario/riassunto

A novel theoretical account of globalization, this book argues that we must move away from top-down visions of the processes and concentrate on how ordinary people locked out of power structures create "globalities" of their own.