ISBN:
9780470775202
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Placing Scale: An Introduction -- Part I: Theorizing Scale -- Introduction: Theorizing Scale -- 1 Beyond Global vs. Local: Economic Politics Outside the Binary Frame -- 2 The Urban as an Object of Study in Global Cities Literatures: Representational Practices and Conceptions of Place and Scale -- 3 "Globalization," the "Regulation Approach," and the Politics of Scale -- 4 Retheorizing the Scale of Globalization: Topologies, Actor-networks, and Cosmopolitanism -- Part II: Rhetorics of Scale -- Introduction: Rhetorics of Scale -- 5 "Adventure Travel for the MindR": Analyzing the United States Virtual Trade Mission's Promotion of Globalization through Discourse and Corporate Media Strategies -- 6 Popular Culture, Academic Discourse, and the Incongruities of Scale -- 7 Maintaining National Identity at the Border: Scale, Masculinity, and the Policing of Immigration in Southern California -- Part III: Scales of Praxis -- Introduction: Scales of Praxis -- 8 Contested Landscapes of Labor: Rival Unionism in the Farm Implements Industry -- 9 The Politics of Environmental Justice as the Politics of Scale: St. James Parish, Louisiana, and the Shintech Siting Controversy -- 10 Networks, Governance, and the Politics of Scale: Inter-urban Networks and the European Union -- Index.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Permalink
