Globalization's contradictions : geographies of discipline, destruction, and transformation / Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalization and neoliberalism: dominating disciplines -- "Globalization's dimensions" / by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen -- The ascendancy of neoliberalism and emergence of contemporary globalization / by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen -- Globalization's many dimensions -- Globalization's macro-economic faces -- Financial globalization -- Global financial architecture transitions: mutations through "roll-back" neoliberalism to technocratic fixes / by Adam Tickell -- Multi-local global corporations: new reach - same core locations / by Susan M. Walcott -- Systems of production and international competitiveness: prospects for the developing nations / by Daniel C. Knudsen and Molly Kotlen -- Globalization's unruly spaces -- The globalization of labor -- Globalization of labor: increasing complexity, more unruly / by Dennis Conway -- Illegal globalization -- Unruly spaces: globalization and transnational criminal economies / by Christian Allen -- Globalization's geo-political faces -- Political globalization -- Geo-political globalization: from world systems to global city-systems / by Dennis Conway and Richard Wolfel -- Geographical globalization -- Globalization has a home address: the geopolitics of globalization -- Cultural globalization -- The globalization of culture: geography and the industrial production of culture / by Don Mitchell and Clayton Rosati -- The globalization of fear -- The globalization of fear: fear as a technology of governance / by Byron Miller -- Alternative visions: constructive -- Democratic and hopeful -- Ecological globalization -- The neoliberalization of the global environment / by Nik Heynen and Jeremia Njeru -- Globalization's cultural challenges -- Globalization's cultural challenges: homogenization, hybridization and heightened identity / by Nanda R. Shrestha and Dennis Conway -- Globalization from below -- Globalization from below: coordinating global resistance: alternative social forums, civil society, and grassroots networks / by Dennis Conway -- Towards "fair globalization" -- Towards "fair globalization" : opposing neoliberal destruction, relying on democratic institutions & local empowerment, and sustaining human development / by Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen.