By Dennis Conway,Nik Heynen
ISBN-10: 0415770610
ISBN-13: 9780415770613
ISBN-10: 1138867217
ISBN-13: 9781138867215
Since the Nineteen Eighties, globalization and neoliberalism have caused a finished restructuring of everyone’s lives. individuals are being ‘disciplined’ through neoliberal financial agendas, ‘transformed’ by means of communique and knowledge expertise adjustments, worldwide commodity chains and networks, and within the worldwide South particularly, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, ailment pandemics, between different disastrous disruptions, also are globalization’s legacy.
This number of geographical remedies of this sort of complicated set of strategies finds the contradictions within the affects of globalization on peoples’ lives. Globalizations Contradictions to begin with introduces globalization in all its intricacy and contrariness, on through important assurance of globalization’s dimensions. different parts which are lined extensive are:
- globalization’s macro-economic faces
- globalization’s unruly spaces
- globalization’s geo-political faces
- ecological globalization
- globalization’s cultural challenges
- globalization from below
- fair globalization.
Globalizations Contradictions is a severe exam of the ongoing function of foreign and supra-national associations and their involvement within the political financial administration and backbone of worldwide restructuring. intentionally, this assortment increases questions, while it bargains geographical insights and considerate exams of globalization’s multifaceted ‘faces and spaces.’
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