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Globalization in practice /
In short, punchy essays by distinguished researchers from across a range of disciplines, this book provides a new way of understanding globalisation, moving away from the standard accounts of global forces, economic flows, and capitalist dynamics, to show how ordinary practices and artefacts are cru...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.