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Processes of globalization have changed the world in many, often fundamental, ways. Increasingly these processes are being debated and contested. This Handbook offers a timely, rich and critical panorama of these multifaceted developments from a geographical perspective.

This Handbook explores the myriad of ways in which differing cross-border flows - of people, goods, services, capital, information, pollution and cultures - have (re)shaped concrete places across the globe and how these places, in turn, shape those flows. With original contributions from worldwide leading scholars, the Handbook positions globalization in a broader historical perspective, presenting a variety of geographical examples so that readers can better understand these processes.

Regional studies and economic and human geography scholars will find this an invaluable resource for exploring the key topics of the geographies of globalization. Lecturers and advanced students will also find the detailed case studies useful to help explain the fundamental concepts outlined in the book.

Contributors include: P.C. Adams, A.-L. Amilhat Szary, D. Arnold, D. Bassens, S. Choo, K.R. Cox, E. Currid-Halkett, S. Dalby, E. dell'Agnese, B. Derudder, T. Fogelman, C. Gaffney, J. Gupta, M. Hesse, R. Horner, S. Huang, A. Isaksen, A.E.G. Jonas, A. Jones, J.M. Kleibert, R.C. Kloosterman, R. Koetsenruijter, T. Lam, J. Luukkonen, V. Mamadouh, V. Mazzucato, E. McDonough, B. Miller, S. Moisio, M. Müller, B. Oomen, S. Park, M.W. Rosenberg, J.W. Scott, M. Sparke, P. Terhorst, K. Terlouw, F. Tödtling, M. Trippl, M. van Meeteren, P. Vries, L. Wagner, Y.-f. Wu, H.-g. Xu, T. Yamazaki, B.S.A. Yeoh

Processes of globalization have changed the world in many, often fundamental, ways. Increasingly these processes are being debated and contested. This Handbook offers a timely, rich as well as critical panorama of these multifaceted processes with up-to-date chapters by renowned specialists from many countries. It comprises chapters on the historical background of globalization, different geographical perspectives (including world systems analysis and geopolitics), the geographies of flows (of people, goods and services, and capital), and the geographies of places (including global cities, clusters, port cities and the impact of climate change).

'This book delivers clearly, thoroughly and powerfully on its promise to explore how myriad cross-border flows have reshaped nearly every part of the globe and to highlight how these places, in turn, have shaped those flows. In the Introduction and a synthesizing chapter, Kloosterman and colleagues crystalize how economic geographers understand these issues and leading authors address a broad range of topics in 31 more chapters packed with erudition and insight. Essential reading for those who seek a comprehensive introduction to the topic.'
--John Mollenkopf, City University of New York, The Graduate Center, US

'This is a fine addition to the vast literature on globalization, that once-celebrated process, now at best treated with ambivalence. The volume helpfully situates globalization within a broader historical context, offering insights into both continuities and ruptures with the past. It covers a wide-ranging set of processes relating to cross-border flows and linkages, from capital to goods and services to people and cultures, information and pollution. There is something in it for nearly every student studying globalization, whether it is to learn something about migrant flows, media flows, environmental transboundary issues, or the mobility of capital and more. An accessible read.'
--Lily Kong, Singapore Management University

Table of Contents:

Contents:

PART I: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS
1. Introducing geographies of globalization: genealogies of the concept, existing views on in- and outside geography
Robert C. Kloosterman, Virginie Mamadouh and Pieter Terhorst

2. A very brief history of economic globalization since Columbus
Peer Vries

3. Globalization and the question of scale
Kevin R. Cox

4. Globalization and border studies
James W. Scott

PART II: GLOBALIZED GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES
5. World-systems analysis
Kees Terlouw

6. Globalization and sustainable development
Joyeeta Gupta

7. An Economic-Geographic perspective on globalization
Robert C. Kloosterman and Pieter Terhorst

8. Globalization in cultural and media geographies
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Soyoon Choo

9. Political geographies of globalization
Sami Moisio, Juho Luukkonen and Andrew E.G. Jonas

PART III: GEOGRAPHIES OF FLOWS
10. The geographies of mobility and migration in a globalizing world
Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary

11. Geographies of citizenship and identity in a globalizing world
Tatiana Fogelman

12. Migration, families and households in globalizing Asia
Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Shirlena Huangand Theodora Lam

13. Labour geographies in a globalizing world
Dennis Arnold

14. Geographies of tourism in a globalizing world
Honggang XU and Yuefang WU

15. Do you speak Globish? Geographies of the globalization of English and the linguistic diversity
Virginie Mamadouh

16. Geographies of global production networks
Jana Kleibert and Rory Horner

17. Food and globalization: from ?roots to routes? and back again
Elena Dell?Agnese and Giacomo Pettenati

18. Geographies of finance in a globalizing world
David Bassens and Michiel van Meeteren

19. Geographies of health in a globalizing world
Mark Rosenberg

20. Digital media
Paul C. Adams

21. Patterns and dynamics of globalization of cultural industries
Robert C. Kloosterman and Rosa Koetsenruijter

22. Globalization and mega-events: thinking through flows
Martin Müller and Christopher Gaffney

PART IV GEOGRAPHIES OF PLACES
23. Climate change, Gaia and the Anthropocene
Simon Dalby

24. Globalization and the incremental impact on the security and defense sector
Soul Park

25. Regions and clusters and the global economy
Franz Tödtling, Arne Isaksen and Michaela Trippl

26. World cities and globalization
Ben Derudder

27. Ports, cities and the global maritime infrastructure
Markus Hesse and Evan McDonough

PART V GEOGRAPHIES OF GOVERNANCE
28. Global governance, human rights and humanitarianism
Barbara Oomen

29. States, globalizing tendencies and processes of supranational governance
Alun Jones

30. Maritime trade and geopolitics: the Indian Ocean as Japan?s sea lane
Takashi Yamazaki

31. Alter-globalization movements and alternative projects of globalization
Byron Miller

PART VI: RESEARCHING AND TEACHING GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBALIZATION
32. Multi-sited fieldwork in a connected world
Valentina Mazzucato and Lauren Wagner

33. Teaching globalisations
Matthew Sparke

Index