Globalization's Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation

by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138867217
• ISBN13: 9781138867215
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"