Globalization's Contradictions : Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation (Hardcover)

Section 1: Globalization and Neoliberalism: Dominating Disciplines  1. Globalization’s Dimensions  2. The Ascendancy of Neoliberalism and Emergence of Contemporary Globalization  Section 2: Globalization’s Many Dimensions  Globalization’s Macro-Economic Faces  Financial Globalization  3. Global Financial Architecture Transitions: Mutations through ‘Roll-back’ Neoliberalism to Technocratic Fixes  4. Multi-local Global Corporations: New Reach - Same Core Locations  5. Systems of Production and International Competitiveness: Prospects for the Developing Nations  Globalization’s Unruly Spaces  The Globalization of Labor  6. Globalization of Labor: Increasing Complexity, More Unruly  Illegal Globalization  7. Unruly spaces: Globalization and Transnational Criminal Economies  Globalization’s Geo-Political Faces  Political Globalization  8. Geo-Political Globalization: From World Systems to Global City Systems  Geographical Globalization  9. Globalization has a Home Address: The Geopolitics of Globalization  Cultural Globalization  10. The Globalization of Culture: Geography and the Industrial Production of Culture  The Globalization of Fear  11. 'The Globalization of Fear: Fear as a Technology of Governance  Section 3: AlternativeVisions: Constructive, Democratic and Hopeful  Ecological Globalization  12. The Neoliberalization of the Global Environment  Globalization’s Cultural Challenges  13. Globalization’s Cultural Challenges: Homogenization, Hybridization and Heightened Identity  Globalization from Below  14. Globalization from Below: Coordinating Global Resistance: Alternative Social Forums, Civil Society and Grassroots Networks  Towards ‘Fair Globalization’  15. Towards ‘Fair Globalization’ : Opposing Neoliberal Destruction, Relying on democratic Institutions & Local Empowerment, and Sustaining Human Development