Dennis Conway - Globalizations Contradictions: Geographies of discipline, destruction and transformation

Since the 1980s, globalization and neoliberalism have brought about a comprehensive restructuring of everyones 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 globalizations legacy.

This collection of geographical treatments of such a complex set of processes unearths the contradictions in the impacts of globalization on peoples lives. Globalizations Contradictions firstly introduces globalization in all its intricacy and contrariness, followed on by substantive coverage of globalizations dimensions. Other areas that are covered in depth are:

• Globalizations Macro-economic Faces

• Globalizations Unruly Spaces

• Globalizations Geo-political Faces

• Ecological Globalization

• Globalizations Cultural Challenges

• Globalization from Below

• Fair Globalization

Globalizations Contradictions is a critical examination of the continuing role of international and supra-national institutions and their involvement in the political economic management and determination of global restructuring. Deliberately, this collection raises questions, even as it offers geographical insights and thoughtful assessments of globalizations multifaceted faces and spaces.