Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

Finally, a globalization text that takes its subject seriously yet simultaneously explores the myths that surround it. Matt Sparke relates the two 'levels' or ways of thinking about globalization as a material phenomenon and as a political project. This not only makes for a refreshingly novel take on globalization, one that other introductory books manifestly fail to achieve as they go one way or the other ... it does so in an accessible manner."--John Agnew, UCLA "This text is written by an extremely well qualified geographer who has experienced globalization in all its multi-faceted dimen

8.1 Uneven Development, Geopolitics, and Geoeconomics

Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1 Globalization; 1.1 Introducing a World of Interdependency and a Word; 1.1.1 Globalization as integration; 1.1.2 Globalization as buzzword; 1.2 The Networks of Global Interdependency; 1.2.1 The interdependencies of commodities; 1.2.2 The interdependencies of workers; 1.2.3 The interdependencies of money; 1.2.4 The interdependencies of the law; 1.2.5 The interdependencies of governance; 1.2.6 The interdependencies of space; 1.2.7 The interdependencies of health

2 Discourse2.1 Globalization as Dominant Discourse; 2.1.1 The myth of newness; 2.1.2 The myth of inevitability; 2.1.3 The myth of global leveling; 2.2 Dissident Discourse on Globalization; 3 Commodities; 3.1 What is a Commodity?; 3.2 World Trade; 3.3 Commodity Chains; 3.3.1 The emergence of global competition; 3.3.2 The development of global management; 3.4 TNCs; 3.4.1 When?; 3.4.2 Why?; 3.4.3 Where?; 3.4.4 How?; 4 Labor; 4.1 Interdependence and the Far-from-Flat World of Workers; 4.2 The Changing Geographical Division of Labor; 4.3 The Changing Social Divisions of Labor

4.3.1 Changing pattern …