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At a time when references to things ‘global' have gained morecurrency than ever, this book explores the nexus of power and spacebehind the politics of geographical scale.
- Explores the nexus of power and space behind the rescaling ofcontemporary social, economic and political life.
- Organized into three sections on theorizing scale, thediscourses and rhetorics of scale, and scales of activism.
- Will stimulate discussion about how conceptions and visions ofscale inform all aspects of social life.
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Andrew Herod is Associate Professor of Geography at theUniversity of Georgia. He is the author of Labor Geographies:Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism (2001), editor ofOrganizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives onLabor Unionism (1998), and co-editor of An Unruly World?Globalization, Governance and Geography (1998).
Melissa W. Wright is Assistant Professor of Geography andWomen's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She haspublished articles in Environment and Planning A, Antipode, PublicCulture, Cultural Anthropology, Social Text, and Hypatia: A Journalof Feminist Philosophy.
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Following the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11,2001, terrorism has joined economic restructuring, climate change,environmental degradation, and the AIDS pandemic as another issuewarranting 'global' attention. The contributors to this bookexplore the nexus of power and space behind this rescaling ofcontemporary social, economic, and political life.
The book opens with an introductory essay by the editors,outlining some of the main themes that have arisen in discussionsabout geographical scale to date. The contributors then consider inmore detail key questions about how our world is scaled, how wethink about such scaling, and how social actors – whetherterrorists, environmentalists, or corporate executives – goabout scaling their activities in ways that allow them to exercisepower or deny it to others.
This timely book will stimulate readers to find new ways todefine the terms and spaces of political struggle open to them.
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