De-Coca-colonization making the globe from the inside out

In this theoretical account of globalization, geographer and urbanist Flusty argues that we must move away from top-down visions of the processes at work and concentrate on how ordinary people who are locked out of power structures create "globalities" of their own. Taking us on a kaleidos...

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1. Verfasser: Flusty, Steven (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Routledge 2004
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Zusammenfassung:In this theoretical account of globalization, geographer and urbanist Flusty argues that we must move away from top-down visions of the processes at work and concentrate on how ordinary people who are locked out of power structures create "globalities" of their own. Taking us on a kaleidoscopic tour through the worlds of ordinary people and their deceptively prosaic commodities, with examples ranging from Los Angeles to Nike and the Zapatistas, the author demonstrates that the little-g globalization is where much of the action reconstituting global social life is happening.--From publisher description.
Beschreibung:VII, 235 S.
ISBN:0415945372
0-415-94537-2
0415945380
0-415-94538-0