Geographies of Power: Placing Scale

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 issue warranting ′global′ attention. The contributors to this book explore the nexus of power and space behind this rescaling of contemporary 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 discussions about geographical scale to date. The contributors then consider in more detail key questions about how our world is scaled, how we think about such scaling, and how social actors – whether terrorists, environmentalists, or corporate executives – go about scaling their activities in ways that allow them to exercise power or deny it to others.
This timely book will stimulate readers to find new ways to define the terms and spaces of political struggle open to them.

Spis treści:
List of Figures.
List of Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Placing Scale: An Introduction. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).
Part I: Theorizing Scale.
Introduction: Theorizing Scale. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).
1. Beyond Global vs. Local: Economic Politics Outside the Binary Frame. (J. K. Gibson–Graham).
2. The Urban as an Object of Study in Global Cities Literatures: Representational Practices and Conceptions of Place and Scale. (Eugene J. McCann).
3. “Globalization,” the “Regulation Approach,” and the Politics of Scale. (Kevin Cox).
4. Retheorizing the Scale of Globalization: Topologies, Actor–Networks, and Cosmopolitanism. (Alan Latham).
Part II: Rhetoric of Scale.
Introduction: Rhetoric of Scale. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).
5. “Adventure Travel for the Mind’’: Analyzing the United States Virtual Trade Mission’s Promotion of Globalization through Discourse and Corporate Media Strategies. (Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Altha J. Cravey).
6. Popular Culture, Academic Discourse, and the Incongruities of Scale. (Andrew Kirby).
7. Maintaining National Identity at the Border: Scale, Masculinity, and the Policing of Immigration in Southern California. (Susan P. Mains).
Part III: Scales of Praxis.
Introduction: Scales of Praxis. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).
8. Contested Landscapes of Labor: Rival Unionism in the Farm Implements Industry. (Jeff Crump).
9. The Politics of Environmental Justice as the Politics of Scale: St. James Parish, Louisiana and the Shintech Siting Controversy. (Hilda Kurtz).
10. Networks, Governance, and the Politics of Scale: Inter–Urban Networks and the European Union. (Helga Leitner, Claire Pavlik, and Eric Sheppard).
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Andrew Herod is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism (2001), editor of Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism (1998), and co–editor of An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography (1998).
Melissa W. Wright is Assistant Professor of Geography and Women′s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She has published articles in Environment and Planning A, Antipode, Public Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Social Text, and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

Okładka tylna:
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 issue warranting ′global′ attention. The contributors to this book explore the nexus of power and space behind this rescaling of contemporary social, economic, and po litical life.
The book opens with an introductory essay by the editors, outlining some of the main themes that have arisen in discussions about geographical scale to date. The contributors then consider in more detail key questions about how our world is scaled, how we think about such scaling, and how social actors – whether terrorists, environmentalists, or corporate executives – go about scaling their activities in ways that allow them to exercise power or deny it to others.
This timely book will stimulate readers to find new ways to define the terms and spaces of political struggle open to them.