An Unruly World?: Globalization, Governance and Geography - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415169321 ISBN 13: 9780415169325

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

An Unruly World explores the diverse conundrums thrown up by seemingly unruly globalization. Examining how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game, in a wide variety of different places, domains, and sectors, the authors focus on a wide range of issues: from analysis of 'soft capitalism', and the post-Cold War organizational drives of international trade unions, to the clamour of states to reinvent welfare policy, and the efforts of citizen groups to challenge trade and financial regimes. An Unruly World argues that we are not living in a world bereft of rules and rulers; the rules governing the global economy today are more strictly enforced by international organizations and rhetoric than ever before.

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From the Back Cover:

An Unruly World? examines how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game throughout the world of the late twentieth century. Ranging in focus from analyses of "soft capitalism" and the rhetoric of speed in US political discourse, to the post-Cold War organizational drives of international trade unions, and the efforts of citizen groups to challenge trade and financial regimes, the chapters analyse the diverse conundrums thrown up by a seemingly unruly globalization. Whereas contemporary literature appears to argue that the process of globalization is leading to an increasingly uncontrollable world, this book suggests that this is not, however, a world bereft of rules and rulers. Indeed the rules governing the global economy are today more strictly enforced by intellectual organization and the rhetoric of neoliberalism than ever before.

About the Author:

Andrew Herod is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, Athens, and is the author of Organizing the Landscape (forthcoming). Gearoid O Tuathail is Associate Professor of Geography at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He is the author of Critical Geopolitics (1996) and an editor of The Geopolitics Reader (Routledge, 1998). Susan M. Roberts is Assistant Professor of Geography and member of the Women's Studis Program and the Committee on Social Theory atthe University of Kentucky. Her work has been widely published in edited collection and journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415169321
• ISBN 13: 9780415169325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Herod Andrew, O Tuathail Geroid, Roberts Susan M.