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Global Dimensions: Space, Place and the Contemporary World - Couverture souple

Short, John Rennie

 
9781861891020: Global Dimensions: Space, Place and the Contemporary World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1861891024 ISBN 13 : 9781861891020
Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2001

Synopsis

Globalization is one of today's most powerful and pervasive ideas – for some a welcome dream, for others a nightmare. The term is used in the popular press as a sort of shorthand for the notion that all parts of the world are becoming more alike. It is also used as a marketing concept to sell goods, commodities and services. ‘Going global’ has become the mantra for a whole range of companies, business gurus and institutions. John Rennie Short disagrees with this interpretation, arguing that the world today actually thrives on local differences and that a global polity tends to reinforce – not repress – the power of individual nation-states. He insists that globalization is not so much replacing difference with sameness as providing opportunities for new interactions between spaces and locations, new connections between the global and the local, new social landscapes and more diversity rather than less.

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À propos de l'auteur

John Rennie Short is Emeritus Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His many books include The Urban Now: Living in an Age of Urban Globalism (2023).

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Éditeur
Reaktion Books
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1861891024
ISBN 13 
9781861891020
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
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