An unruly world: globalization, governance, and geography An unruly world? : globalization, governance, and geography

An Unruly World explores the diverse conundrums thrown up by seemingly unruly globalization. Examining how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game, in a wide variety of different places, domains, and sectors, the authors focus on a wide range of issues: from analysis of 'soft capitalism', and the post-Cold War organizational drives of international trade unions, to the clamour of states to reinvent welfare policy, and the efforts of citizen groups to challenge trade and financial regimes. An Unruly World argues that we are not living in a world bereft of rules and rulers; the rules governing the global economy today are more strictly enforced by international organizations and rhetoric than ever before. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures and tables......Page 10 List of contributors......Page 11 Acknowledgements......Page 13 NEGOTIATING UNRULY PROBLEMATICS......Page 16 THE RISE OF SOFT CAPITALISM......Page 40 GLOBAL FLOWMATIONS, LOCAL FUNDAMENTALISMS, AND FAST GEOPOLITICS: ~AMERICA~ IN AN ACCELERATING WORLD ORDER......Page 87 FROM FEDERAL WELFARE TO LOCAL WORKFARE? REMAKING CANADA'S WORK-WELFARE REGIME......Page 110 GEO-GOVERNANCE IN TRADE AND FINANCE AND POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES OF DISSENT......Page 131 PRODUCING GLOBALIZATION: APPAREL AND THE AUSTRALIAN STATE......Page 150 OF BLOCS, FLOWS AND NETWORKS: THE END OF THE COLD WAR, CYBERSPACE, AND THE GEO-ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZED LABOR AT THE FIN DE MILLNAIRE......Page 177 MAGHREBIN IMMIGRATION, FRANCE, AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ~SPATIAL VENT~......Page 211 EXCAVATING NATURE: ENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVES AND DISCURSIVE REGULATION IN THE MINING INDUSTRY......Page 234 Index......Page 260 "An Unruly World? examines how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game throughout the world of the late twentieth century. Ranging in focus from analyses of "soft capitalism" and the rhetoric of speed in US political discourse, to the post-Cold War organizational drives of international trade unions, and the efforts of citizen groups to challenge trade and financial regimes, the chapters analyse the diverse conundrums thrown up by a seemingly unruly globalization." "Whereas contemporary literature appears to argue that the process of globalization is leading to an increasingly uncontrollable world, this book suggests that this is not, however, a world bereft of rules and rulers. Indeed the rules governing the global economy are today more strictly enforced by intellectual organization and the rhetoric of neoliberalism than ever before."--Résumé de l'éditeur An Unruly World? argues that we are not living in a world bereft of rules and rulers but that the rules governing the global economy today are more strictly enforced by international organizations and rhetoric than ever before Andrew Herod, Gearóid Ó Tuathail, And Susan M. Roberts. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. We live in unruly times and, increasingly, in unruly places and spaces.