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’
Andrew Herod is Professor of Geography, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs,
and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, at the University of Georgia, USA. He has written
widely on issues of globalization and labour politics. His books include The Dirty Work of
Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy (with Luis Aguiar) (Blackwell, 2006),
Geographies of Power: Placing Scale (with Melissa Wright) (Blackwell, 2002), Labor
Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism (2001), Organizing the Landscape:
Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism (1998), and An Unruly World? Globalization,
Governance and Geography (with Gearóid Ó Tuathail, and Susan Roberts) (1998). He is also
an elected official, being a member of the government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia.
Table of Contents
List of Figures.
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
296 pages, Hardcover