De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from the Inside Out [Hardcover]

A novel theoretical account of globalization, De-Coca-Colonization argues that we must move away from top-down visions of the processes at work and concentrate on how ordinary people who are locked out of power structures create globalities of their own.Steven Flusty is Lecturer of Geography and Research Associate and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles. Flusty has distinguished himself in the past a shrewd, original, and generative analyst of culture and space...this promises to be engaging, accessible, and widely read. -- George Lipsitz, University of California, San DiegoIntroduction I: From the World to the City to the Street, and Back Again 1: The World Defined 2: The World in the City 3: The World on the Street II: Hard City, Soft Planet 4: The City Hardens 5: Planet Softeners 6: Miscege-Nation III: The Clash of Globalizations 7: The Limits of Coca-Colonization 8: De-Coca-Colonization Classic Conclusion BibliographyUSCopyright ? 2005 by Steven Flusty Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group.