Globalization's contradictions geographies of discipline, destruction and transformation

Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone's lives. People are being 'disciplined' by neoliberal economic agendas, 'transformed' by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains an...

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Otros Autores: Conway, Dennis, 1941- editor (editor), Heynen, Nik, 1973- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge 2017.
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Sumario:Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyone's lives. People are being 'disciplined' by neoliberal economic agendas, 'transformed' by communication and information technology changes, global commodity chains and networks, and in the Global South in particular, destroyed livelihoods, debilitating impoverishment, disease pandemics, among other disastrous disruptions, are also globalization's legacy. This collection of geographical treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impa
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781135986254
9781138867215
9781280628252
9786610628254
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