New Geographies of the Globalized World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Geographies of the Globalized World write by Marcin Wojciech Solarz. This book was released on 2018-01-29. New Geographies of the Globalized World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Globalization has, essentially, come to an end. It is, already, a victorious revolution. It has profoundly restructured the relationships between people and the world, often recreating them in a new geographical image. This book discovers and describes these relationships of new geographies, providing a comprehensive spatial guide to the globalized world of the 21st century. It considers a number of timely and important themes and insights for the present and future world, exploring topics such as population trends and migration; development, the urban; transportation; religion; our endangered planet; wars, conflicts and terrorism, and disease. As such it offers a cross-cutting synthesis of the modern world. It will be of interest to students and researches in humanities and social sciences, including geographers, economists, political scientists and IR specialists.
Geographies of Globalization
Geographies of Globalization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Globalization write by Andrew Herod. This book was released on 2009-02-02. Geographies of Globalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring a wide range of issues, from the integration of the world economy to how contemporary processes are shaping and shaped by nation-states and how workers are organizing transnationally in response to transformations in the planet’s economic geography, Geographies of Globalization is a critical examination of what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world. Challenges neoliberal assumptions on the nature of globalization Provides a conceptual overview of how globalization is a spatial process and of its relation to capitalism Explores whether we are in fact living in a more ‘globalized’ world or only in a more ‘internationalized’ one Considers arguments concerning whether ‘globalization’ is a new phenomenon or simply the latest manifestation of processes many hundreds of years in the making Focuses on how nation-states have shaped, and been shaped by, contemporary processes of ‘globalization’, how ‘globalization’ has been imagined discursively, and how workers are responding to such processes Explores how workers are creating new organizing strategies in response to ‘globalization’
Geographies of Globalization
Geographies of Globalization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Globalization write by Warwick E. Murray. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Geographies of Globalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Geographies of Globalization 2nd edition offers an animated and fully-updated exposition of the geographical impacts of globalization and the contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this area. Energetic and engaging, this book: • Illustrates how the core principles of human geography – such as space and scale – lead to a better understanding of the phenomenon • Debates the historical evolution of globalized society • Analyses the interconnected economic, political and cultural geographies of globalization • Examines the impact of global transformations ‘on the ground’ using examples from six continents • Discusses the three global crises currently facing the world – inequality, the environment and unstable capitalism most recently manifested in the Great Recession • Articulates a human geographical framework for progressive globalization and approaching solutions to the problems we face Boxed sections highlight key concepts and innovative work by geographers as well as topical and lively debates concerning current global trends. The book is also generously illustrated with a wide range of Figures, photographs, and maps.
Geographies of Globalization
Geographies of Globalization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Globalization write by Warwick E. Murray. This book was released on 2006-05-05. Geographies of Globalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a geographical perspective on globalization. This book provides an exploration of its spatial impacts, and the contribution of human geography to studies and debates in this field. It is useful to human geography, sociology, political science, and development studies undergraduates and postgraduates.
Geographies of the New Economy
Geographies of the New Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of the New Economy write by Peter W. Daniels. This book was released on 2006-12-11. Geographies of the New Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the 'new economy'? Where is it? How does it differ from the 'old economy'? How does the 'new economy' relate to issues such as the nature of work, social inclusion and exclusion? Geographies of the New Economy explores the meaning of the 'new economy' at the global scale from the perspective of advanced post-socialist and emerging economies. Drawing on evidence from regions around the world, the book debates the efficacy of the widely used concept of the ‘new economy’ and examines its socio-spatial consequences. This book is important reading for policy-makers, academics and students of geography, sociology, urban studies, economics, planning and policy studies.
