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Geographies of Global Change Remapping the World [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Science)
  • ISBN-10:  0631222863
  • ISBN-10:  0631222863
  • ISBN-13:  9780631222866
  • ISBN-13:  9780631222866
  • Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell
  • Publisher:  Wiley-Blackwell
  • Pages:  540
  • Pages:  540
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2002
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2002
  • SKU:  0631222863-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0631222863-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100787476
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This volume provides students with a series of critical insights into the economic, political, social, cultural and ecological dimensions of change at every geographical scale from the global to the local.List of Figures.

List of Tables.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgement.

1. Geography/Globalization. (Peter J. Taylor, Michael J Watts, and R J Johnston).

Part I: Geoeconomic Change.

2. A Hyperactive World. (Nigel Thrift).

3. Trading Worlds. (Peter Dicken).

4. From Farming to Agribusiness: Global Agri-food Networks. (Sarah Whatmore).

5. Transnational Corporations and Global Divisions of Labor. (Richard Wright).

6. Global Change in a World of Organized Labor. (Andrew Herod).

7. Trajectories of Development Theory: Capitalism, Socialism and Beyond. (David Slater).

Part II: Geopolitical Change.

8. Democracy and Human Rights After the Cold War. (John Agnew).

9. The Renaissance of Nationalism. (Nuala C. Johnson).

10. Global Regulation and Trans-state Organization. (Susan M. Roberts).

11. The Rise of the Workfare State. (Joe Painter).

12. Post-Cold War Geopolitics: Contrasting Superpowers in a World of Global Dangers. (Gerard OTualhail).

Part III: Geosocial Change.

13. Population Crisis: From Global to Local. (Elspeth Graham and Paul Boyle).

14. Global Change and Patterns of Death and Disease. (John Eyles).

15. Changing Women's Status in a Global Economy. (Susan Christopherson).

16. Stuck in Place: Children in the Globalization of Social Reproduction. (Cindi Katz).

17. Race and Globalization. (Ruth Wilson Gilmore).

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