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, <i>Geographies of Globalization</i> is a critical examination of what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world. <ul> <li>Challenges neoliberal assumptions on the nature of globalization<br /> </li> <li>Provides a conceptual overview of how globalization is a spatial process and of its relation to capitalism<br /> </li> <li>Explores whether we are in fact living in a more ‘globalized’ world or only in a more ‘internationalized’ one<br /> </li> <li>Considers arguments concerning whether ‘globalization’ is a new phenomenon or simply the latest manifestation of processes many hundreds of years in the making<br /> </li> <li>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<br /> </li> <li>Explores how workers are creating new organizing strategies in response to ‘globalization’</li> </ul>
