Globalization : theory and practice / edited by Eleonore Kofman and Gillian Youngs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Contributors -- Preface -- Pt. 1. Globalization, international relations and political geography -- 1. International relations as we enter the twenty-first century -- 2. Political geography and globalization as we enter the twenty-first century -- Pt. 2. North-South debates -- 3. Globalization, geography and environmental security -- 4. Rethinking the geopolitics of the global: the case of North-South relations -- 5. Globalizing forces and natural disaster: what can be the future for the small Caribbean island of Montserrat? -- 6. Social movements and global politics -- 7. Development hegemonies and local outcomes: women and NGOs in low-income countries -- Pt. 3. Gender, power and global processes -- 8. Shifting ground(s), remapping strategies and triad analytics -- 9. Gender inequalities and feminist politics in a global perspective -- 10. The places of women in trading places revisited: gendered global/regional regimes and inter-nationalized feminist resistance -- 11. International sex and service -- Pt. 4. Politics and economics of movements and space -- 12. Crisis? What crisis? The politics of migration regulation in the era of globalization -- 13. Globalization, migration and citizenship: the case of Turkey -- 14. What next for the state? -- 15. The global capacity of a world city: a relational study of London -- 16. Globalization and geopolitical world orders -- Pt. 5. Knowledge and technologies -- 17. Power, knowledge and governance: globalizing intellectual property management, reproducing inequalities -- 18. The multimedia industry: networks and regional development in a globalized economy -- 19. Cyber-states and the 'sovereignty' of virtual communities -- 20. The soft-shell of territoriality in the nuclear era -- Index.

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