Suchergebnisse

Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism -- Disposable daughters and factory fathers -- Manufacturing bodies -- The dialectics of still life: murder, women, and disposability -- Maquiladora mestizas and a feminist border politics -- Crossing the factory frontier -- Paradoxes and protests

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

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change itBrings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about themApplies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues including the global economic crisis, transnational environmental problems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, and proliferating natural disastersTheoretically diverse - a range of perspectives are put to work ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchismThe chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the present and future world order Noel Castreeis a Professor in the School of Environment and Development, Manchester University.Paul Chattertondirects the MA for Social Activism at the University of Leeds.Nik Heynenis an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia.Wendy Larneris a Professor of Geography at Bristol University who works on globalisation and gender.Melissa W. Wrightis an Associate Professor in the Geography and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.