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Globalization under Construction : Govermentality, Law, and Identity.
Title:
Globalization under Construction : Govermentality, Law, and Identity.
Author:
Perry, Richard Warren.
ISBN:
9780816693764
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (390 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Globalization and Governmentality: An Introduction -- 1. Global Strategic Vision: Managing the World -- 2. Zones of New Sovereignty in Southeast Asia -- 3. International Political Economy as a Cultural Practice: The Metaphysics of Capital Mobility -- 4. Spanish Immigration Law and the Construction of Difference: Citizens and "Illegals" on Europe's Southern Border -- 5. South Asian Workers in the Gulf: Jockeying for Places -- 6. Illegality, Borderlands, and the Space of Nonexistence -- 7. Christian Conversion and "Racial" Labor Capacities: Constructing Racialized Identities in Hawai'i -- 8. Sex and Space in the Global City -- 9. Works in Progress: Traditional Knowledge, Biological Diversity, and Intellectual Property in a Neoliberal Era -- 10. Rebooting the World Picture: Flying Windows of Globalization in the End Times -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Considers descriptions of humankind's future, and the discourses of globalization that frame them, from perspectives in anthropology, geography, law, sociology, and cultural studies. The essays explore the forms, practices, and effects of governmentality integral to global modernity's architecture.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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