Herod / Wright Geographies of Power

Placing Scale
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77520-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten, E-Book

At a time when references to things 'global' have gained morecurrency than ever, this book explores the nexus of power and spacebehind the politics of geographical scale.
* * Explores the nexus of power and space behind the rescaling ofcontemporary social, economic and political life.
* * Organized into three sections on theorizing scale, thediscourses and rhetorics of scale, and scales of activism.
* Will stimulate discussion about how conceptions and visions ofscale inform all aspects of social life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herod, Andrew

Wright, Melissa W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
List of Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Placing Scale: An Introduction. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W.Wright).
Part I: Theorizing Scale.
Introduction: Theorizing Scale. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W.Wright).
1. Beyond Global vs. Local: Economic Politics Outside the BinaryFrame. (J. K. Gibson-Graham).
2. The Urban as an Object of Study in Global Cities Literatures:Representational Practices and Conceptions of Place and Scale.(Eugene J. McCann).
3. "Globalization," the "RegulationApproach," and the Politics of Scale. (Kevin Cox).
4. Retheorizing the Scale of Globalization: Topologies,Actor-Networks, and Cosmopolitanism. (Alan Latham).
Part II: Rhetoric of Scale.
Introduction: Rhetoric of Scale. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W.Wright).
5. "Adventure Travel for the Mind'': Analyzingthe United States Virtual Trade Mission's Promotion ofGlobalization through Discourse and Corporate Media Strategies.(Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Altha J. Cravey).
6. Popular Culture, Academic Discourse, and the Incongruities ofScale. (Andrew Kirby).
7. Maintaining National Identity at the Border: Scale,Masculinity, and the Policing of Immigration in SouthernCalifornia. (Susan P. Mains).
Part III: Scales of Praxis.
Introduction: Scales of Praxis. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W.Wright).
8. Contested Landscapes of Labor: Rival Unionism in the FarmImplements Industry. (Jeff Crump).
9. The Politics of Environmental Justice as the Politics ofScale: St. James Parish, Louisiana and the Shintech SitingControversy. (Hilda Kurtz).
10. Networks, Governance, and the Politics of Scale: Inter-UrbanNetworks and the European Union. (Helga Leitner, Claire Pavlik, andEric Sheppard).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Herod is Associate Professor of Geography at theUniversity of Georgia. He is the author of Labor Geographies:Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism (2001), editor ofOrganizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives onLabor Unionism (1998), and co-editor of An Unruly World?Globalization, Governance and Geography (1998).
Melissa W. Wright is Assistant Professor of Geography andWomen's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She haspublished articles in Environment and Planning A, Antipode, PublicCulture, Cultural Anthropology, Social Text, and Hypatia: A Journalof Feminist Philosophy.