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Globalization in Practice

Editat de Nigel Thrift, Adam Tickell, Steve Woolgar Autor William H. Rupp
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iun 2014

Problema fundamentală pe care o rezolvă Globalization in Practice este abstractizarea excesivă a conceptului de globalizare. Adesea, acest fenomen este prezentat ca o forță „extraterestră” care acționează deasupra societăților, fără o manifestare fizică palpabilă în afara efectelor sale economice. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care acest volum, editat de Nigel Thrift, Adam Tickell și Steve Woolgar, demontează mitul „globalizării de sus” pentru a explora mecanismele banale, dar esențiale, prin care lumea a devenit interconectată. Putem afirma că forța cărții rezidă în atenția acordată infrastructurilor invizibile și momentelor concrete din istoria capitalismului în care au fost create instrumentele de reproducere a sistemului global. Ca și Larry Ray în Globalization and Everyday Life, autorii acestui volum distilează experiența reală în principii acționabile, demonstrând că globalizarea este susținută de acțiunile zilnice ale oamenilor și instituțiilor. Totodată, lucrarea amintește de abordarea din Material Geographies de Nigel Clark, subliniind că forma actuală a lumii nu este inevitabilă, ci a fost „construită” activ prin tehnologie și mobilitate. Această perspectivă se aliniază perfect cu opera anterioară a lui Nigel Thrift, în special cu Shaping the Day, unde analiza timpului ca resursă cotidiană dezvăluie structurile profunde ale modernității. Față de Seeing Like a City, unde accentul cade pe rețelele urbane, aici analiza se extinde la artefactele și practicile ordinare care fac ca motorul capitalismului global să funcționeze neîncetat.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199212637
ISBN-10: 0199212635
Pagini: 310
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures
Dimensiuni: 160 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru profesioniștii din afaceri internaționale și sociologi care doresc să înțeleagă globalizarea dincolo de cifrele macroeconomice. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra modului în care micile detalii logistice și obiectele cotidiene dictează succesul pe piața globală. Este un ghid teoretic și practic care transformă un concept abstract într-un set de mecanisme vizibile și ușor de analizat în contextul economic actual.


Despre autor

Nigel Thrift este un distins profesor la Departamentul de Geografie al Universității din Bristol și un cercetător prolific în domeniul geografiei umane și al științelor sociale. Expertiza sa vastă este reflectată în numeroase lucrări de referință, precum Globalisation, Institutions and Regional Development in Europe sau Mapping the Subject, unde explorează intersecția dintre spațiu, subiectivitate și putere. Preocupările sale constante pentru modul în care rețelele complexe și practicile cotidiene modelează lumea modernă sunt centrale și în acest volum, consolidându-i reputația de analist subtil al dinamicii capitalismului contemporan.


Descriere

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. Whilst our understanding of the politics, economics, and social resonance of the phenomenon has become increasingly sophisticated at the macro-level, this book argues that globalization too often continues to be depicted as a set of extra-terrestrial forces with no real physical manifestation, except as effects. The essays challenge this dominant understanding of 'globalization from above' through explorations of the mundane means by which globalization has been achieved. Instead of a focus on the meta-political economy of global capitalism, the book concentrates on the everyday life of capitalism, the not-so-'little' things that keep the 'large' forces of globalization ticking over. With its eye on the mundane, the book demonstrates that a series of everyday and, consequently, all but invisible formations critically facilitate and create the conditions under which globalization has flourished. The emphasis is on concrete moments in the history of capitalism when these new means of regular reproduction were invented and deployed. Only by understanding these infrastructures can we understand the dynamics of globalization.In short, punchy essays by distinguished researchers from across a range of disciplines, this book provides a new way of understanding globalization, moving away from the standard accounts of global forces, economic flows, and capitalist dynamics, to show how ordinary practices and artefacts are crucial elements and symbols of globalization.

Recenzii

Four British academics representing fields as diverse as geography, history, social sciences, and science and technology studies have edited this collection of 51 essays in seven parts that reflect some of the practices and objects that constitute globalization. This number of essays allows for a wide scope of topics ... Highly recommended.
This number of essays allows for a wide scope of topics
The book provides thought-provoking snapshots of globalization

Notă biografică

Nigel Thrift is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick. He joined Warwick from the University of Oxford where he was made Head of the Division of Life and Environmental Sciences in 2003 before becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research in 2005. He has been the recipient of a number of distinguished academic awards including the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal for contributions to geographic research in 2003, Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the Association of American Geographers in 2007 and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Gold Medal in 2008. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003 and received an Honorary LLD from the University of Bristol in 2010. His current research spans a broad range of interests, including international finance; cities and political life; non-representational theory; affective politics; and the history of time.Adam Tickell is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Transfer) and Professor of Geography at the University of Birmingham and has worked at the Universities of Leeds, Manchester, Southampton and London. He received his BA and PhD from the University of Manchester. He was editor of Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, has co-edited books on economic geography with Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck and Eric Sheppard and has authored numerous papers on his areas of interest.Steve Woolgar is Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Head of the Science and Technology Studies group at InSIS (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society), and is a Professorial Fellow of Green Templeton College. He has published widely in social studies of science and technology, social problems and social theory, including Laboratory Life: the construction of scientific facts (with B Latour, Princeton), Science: the Very Idea (Routledge), Knowledge and Reflexivity (Sage), The Cognitive Turn: sociological and psychological perspectives on science (with S.Fuller and M.de Mey, Kluwer), Representation in Scientific Practice (with M. Lynch, MIT), The Machine at Work: technology, organisation and work (with K.Grint, Polity), and Virtual Society? Technology, cyberbole, reality (OUP).William H. Rupp received his doctorate from the University of Warwick and holds degrees from the University of Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier University. Currently, he is engaged with Warwick's Widening Participation work and is responsible for a major outreach programme. He also served as assistant editor to The European World 1500-1800 (ed. Beat Kümin; Routledge 2009 with 2nd ed. forthcoming).