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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge
2017.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433687706719 |
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 |
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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 9780203962961 |