Globalization in practice / edited by Nigel Thrift [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thrift, Nigel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations, tables, charts

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I TRAVEL, TOURISM, AND MOBILITY

1. Airports / Peter Adey

2. Backpacking / Nick Clarke

3. Walking / Tim Ingold

4. Mobile Phone / Eric Laurier

5. Mobility / Peter Merriman

6. World Maps / Annemarie Mol

7. Airport Security / Harvey Molotch

8. Passports / John Torpey

9. Sex Workers / Jackie West

10. The Gap Year / Alexandra Woolgar

pt. II INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT

11. Pipelines / Andrew Barry

12. Pipes and Wires / Nino Kemoklidze

13. Automated Repair and Backup Systems / Stephen Graham

14. Road Safety and Traffic Management / Steve Woolgar

15. Containers / Susan M. Roberts

16. Resisting the Global / Paul Routledge

17. The Globalization of a Labour Market: The Case of Seafarers / Helen Sampson

18. Banal Globalization: The Deep Structure of Oil and Gas / Michael J. Watts

19. Putting Standards to Work: Water and the Taste and Smell of Globalization / Ragna Zeiss

pt. III FINANCE AND BUSINESS.

Contents note continued: 20. Flowers / Alex Hughes

21. The Bureau de Change / Michael Levi

22. LIBOR / Donald MacKenzie

23. Taking Mote of Export Earnings / Kris Olds

24. Filthy Lucre: Urine for Sale / Barbara Penner

25. Moody's, Emotions, and Uncertainty in Finance / Jocelyn Pixley

26. Credit Rating Agencies / Timothy J. Sinclair

27. Globalization's Freelancers, Democracy's Decline: Harvard, the Chubais Clan, and US Aid to Russia / Janine R. Wedel

28. Of Pits and Screens / Caitlin Zaloom

pt. IV MEDIA, CONSUMPTION, AND LEISURE

29. Cigarette Packages: The Big Red Chevron and the 282 Little Kids / Franck Cochoy

30. Collecting and Consumption in the Era of eBay / Rebecca M. Ellis

31. The Interaction Order of Auctions of Fine Art and Antiques / Christian Heath

32. Intellectual Property / Adrian Johns

33. The Curvature of Global Brand Space / Celia Lury

34. Bollywood / Vijay Mishra

35. Global News (Service) Networks / Gerard Toal.

Contents note continued: 36. How Rounders Goes around the World / Elizabeth Shove

pt. V HEALTH AND NATURE

37. Biodiversity and Globalization / Geoffrey C. Bowker

38. Mobility and the Medical Image / Catelijne Coopmans

39.e-Solutions to Sharing Information in Child Protection: The Rise and Fall of ContactPoint / Sue White

40. Globalizing of Bananas: Of Rhizomes, Fungi, and Mobility / Mimi Sheller

pt. VI ORDER AND CONTROL

41. Forms that Form / Nicholas Gill

42. Accounting for the Calculating Self / Peter Miller

43. Replaying Society to the World through CCTV / Daniel Neyland

44. The AK-47 as a Material Global Artefact / Tom Osborne

45. Human Rights / Sharyn Roach Anleu

pt. VII CLASSIFICATIONS

46. Area-Based Classifications / Roger Burrows

47. First Names: Examples from Germany / Jurgen Gerhards

48. One of My Top Ten Days / Lucy Kimbell

49. Barcodes and RFIDs / Martin Dodge

50. ISO 9000 / Wendy Larner

51. Number / Helen Verran.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-166270-4