Geographies of Power Placing Scale [Paperback]

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• Explores the nexus of power and space behind the rescaling of contemporary social, economic and political life.
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• Organized into three sections on theorizing scale, the discourses and rhetorics of scale, and scales of activism.
  
• Will stimulate discussion about how conceptions and visions of scale inform all aspects of social life.

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 Binary Frame. (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 “Regulation Approach,” 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).

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