Geographies of Power: Placing Scale

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At a time when references to things 'global' have gained more currency than ever, this book explores the nexus of power and space behind the politics of geographical scale.
  • Explores the nexus of power and space behind the rescaling of contemporary social, economic and political life.
  • Organized into three sections on theorizing scale, the discourses and rhetorics of scale, and scales of activism.
  • Will stimulate discussion about how conceptions and visions of scale inform all aspects of social life.

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Andrew Herod is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism (2001), editor of Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism (1998), and co-editor of An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography (1998).

Melissa W. Wright is Assistant Professor of Geography and Women's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She has published articles in Environment and Planning A, Antipode, Public Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Social Text, and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

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