LEADER 03894nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910348233603321 005 20190329175502.0 010 $a1-135-98625-8 010 $a1-138-86721-7 010 $a1-280-62825-1 010 $a9786610628254 010 $a0-203-96296-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000412660 035 $a(EBL)356064 035 $a(OCoLC)77567172 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000163885 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11164179 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000163885 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10118342 035 $a(PQKB)10159132 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC356064 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000412660 100 $a20051222d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGlobalization's contradictions$b[electronic resource] $egeographies of discipline, destruction and transformation /$fedited by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen 210 $aLondon $cRoutledge$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-77062-9 311 $a0-415-77061-0 327 $aBook Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Part I Globalization and neoliberalism: Dominating disciplines; 1 Globalization's dimensions; 2 The ascendancy of neoliberalism and emergence of contemporary globalization; Part II Globalization's many dimensions; Globalization's macroeconomic faces; 3 Global financial architecture transitions: Mutations through "roll-back" neoliberalism to technocratic fixes; 4 Multi-local global corporations: New reach - same core locations 327 $a5 Systems of production and international competitiveness: Prospects for the developing nationsGlobalization's unruly spaces; 6 Globalization of labor: Increasing complexity, more unruly; 7 Unruly spaces: Globalization and transnational criminal economies; Globalization's geopolitical faces; 8 Geopolitical globalization: From world systems to global city systems; 9 Globalization has a home address: The geopolitics of globalization; 10 The globalization of culture: Geography and the industrial production of culture; 11 The globalization of fear: Fear as a technology of governance 327 $aPart III Alternative visions: Constructive, democratic and hopeful12 The neoliberalization of the global environment; 13 Globalization's cultural challenges: Homogenization, hybridization and heightened identity; 14 Globalization from below: Coordinating global resistance, alternative social forums, civil society and grassroots networks; 15 Towards "fair globalization": Opposing neoliberal destruction, relying on democratic institutions and local empowerment, and sustaining human development; References; Index 330 $aSince the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone's lives. People are being 'disciplined' by neoliberal economic agendas, 'transformed' by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, among other disastrous disruptions, are also globalization's legacy. This collection of geographical treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impa 606 $aGlobalization 606 $aInternational relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGlobalization. 615 0$aInternational relations. 676 $a303.48/2 676 $a304.2 701 $aConway$b Dennis$f1941-$0981999 701 $aHeynen$b Nik$f1973-$0993036 801 0$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910348233603321 996 $aGlobalization's contradictions$92273926 997 $aUNINA