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Geographies of Power: Placing Scale
Herod
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Description for Geographies of Power: Placing Scale
Paperback. The issue of geographic scale has fundamentally shaped the intellectual agenda of critical human geography over the last decade and this text aims to provide a synthesis of the growing literature on the "problem of scale". Editor(s): Wright, Melissa W.; Herod, Andrew. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10. BIC Classification: JH; JP; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
At a time when references to things 'global' have gained more currency than ever, this book explores the nexus of power and space behind the politics of geographical scale.
- Explores the nexus of power and space behind the rescaling of contemporary social, economic and political life.
- Organized into three sections on theorizing scale, the discourses and rhetorics of scale, and scales of activism.
- Will stimulate discussion about how conceptions and visions of scale inform all aspects of social life.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631225584
SKU
V9780631225584
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About Herod
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Geographies of Power: Placing Scale
"Anyone who has grown weary of the shallow and circular globalization debate, and the political fatalism that it breeds, should read this book. Pushing beyond the conception of globalization as a force of nature, the contributors to this volume ask a series of fresh and provocative questions about geographical scale, its social relations, and its political construction. But rather than ... Read more