Leviathan Undone?: Towards a Political Economy of Scale - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774816317 ISBN 13: 9780774816311

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2010

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Críticas:

This is an impressive book. It engages several ongoing debates in political economy and the critical social sciences by further developing existing frameworks and concepts. Most promising, it proposes the elements for a new vocabulary about questions of space, scale, and topology at a time when stable meanings are becoming unstable.? Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, and author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages

Reseña del editor:

Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it comes to problematizing space and scale. In recent years, however, globalization and the prominence of world cities and regions have shaken the foundations of contemporary social science and fostered a new interest in the concept of scale. Leviathan Undone? brings together leading theorists of scale and scholars from a variety of disciplines who develop a new language to discuss scale, space, and topology in critical political economy. By treating scale as an important form of spatialization - one that has its own contradictions and dynamics - the contributors bring a new sensibility to bear on classical and contemporary concerns in political economy, ranging from the role of the nation-state to social movement politics and aboriginal self-governance, from environmental concerns to urban development, and from public health to child care. Leviathan Undone? treats scale as a core concept for our time. It will be of interest to students and scholars of social science in general and politics, geography, and political economy in particular.

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• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0774816317
• ISBN 13: 9780774816311
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 380
• Herausgeber: Keil Roger, Mahon Rianne