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Globalization in practice/ ed by Nigel Thrift ...[et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.Description: xxiv, 285p. illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780199212637
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.482 Q4
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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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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