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Leviathan undone? : towards a political economy of scale / edited by Roger Keil and Rianne Mahon.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canada. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
- Canada.
- Constitutional law--Canada.
- Constitutional law.
- Canada--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 369 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise of world cities and regions have shaken the discipline's foundations and fostered new interest in the concept of scale. Leviathan Undone? brings together leading theorists and scholars from a variety of disciplines to develop a new language to understand the spatial restructuring that has accompanied globalization. By treating scale as the core concept of our time, these innovative, groundbreaking essays bring a new sensibility to classical and contemporary concerns in Canadian and international political economy.
- Contents:
- A thousand leaves : notes on the geographies of uneven spatial development / Neil Brenner
- Is scale a chaotic concept? : notes on processes of scale production / Byron Miller
- Why the urban question still matters : reflections on rescaling and the promise of the urban / Stefan Kipfer
- Avoiding traps, rescaling states, governing Europe / Bob Jessop
- Scaling government to politics / Warren Magnusson
- Producing nature, scaling environment : water, networks, and territories in fascist Spain / Erik Swyngedouw
- Getting the scale right? : a relational scale politics of native title in Australia / Richard Howitt
- The cult of urban creativity / Jamie Peck
- State spaces of "after neoliberalism" : co-constituting the New Zealand designer fashion industry / Wendy Larner, Nick Lewis and Richard Le Heron
- Public health and the political economy of scale : implications for understanding the response to the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Toronto / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil
- Of scalar hierarchies and welfare redesign : child care in four Canadian cities / Rianne Mahon
- The spatiality of contentious politics : more than a politics of scale / Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard
- Regional resistances in an exurban region : intersections of the politics of place and the politics of scale / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg and Liette Gilbert
- Revolutionary cooks in the hungry ghetto : the Black Panther party's biopolitics of scale from below / Nik Heynen
- The empire, the movement, and the politics of scale : considering the World Social Forum / Janet Conway
- Conclusion / Rianne Mahon and Roger Keil.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-74056-3
- 9786612740565
- 0-7748-1632-5
- OCLC:
- 609988646
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