{"product_id":"leviathan-undone-towards-a-political-economy-of-scale-paperback-softback-9780774816311","title":"Leviathan Undone?; Towards a Political Economy of Scale (Paperback \/ softback) 9780774816311","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLeviathan Undone?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTowards a Political Economy of Scale\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRoger Keil (Edited by), Rianne Mahon (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780774816311\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e380 pages, 6 b\u0026amp;w photos, 2 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.3 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCaught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise of world cities and regions have shaken the discipline's foundations and fostered new interest in the concept of scale. \u003cem\u003eLeviathan Undone?\u003c\/em\u003e brings together leading theorists and scholars from a variety of disciplines to develop a new language to understand the spatial restructuring that has accompanied globalization. By treating scale as the core concept of our time, these innovative, groundbreaking essays bring a new sensibility to classical and contemporary concerns in Canadian and international political economy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \/ \u003cem\u003eRianne Mahon and Roger Keil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: The Scalar Turn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 A Thousand Leaves: Notes on the Geographies of Uneven Spatial Development \/ \u003cem\u003eNeil Brenner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Is Scale a Chaotic Concept? Notes on Processes of Scale Production \/ \u003cem\u003eByron Miller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 Why the Urban Question Still Matters: Reflections on Rescaling and the Promise of the Urban \/ \u003cem\u003eStefan Kipfer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Political Scales\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4 Avoiding Traps, Rescaling States, Governing Europe \/ \u003cem\u003eBob Jessop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5 Scaling Government to Politics \/ \u003cem\u003eWarren Magnusson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6 Producing Nature, Scaling Environment: Water, Networks, and Territories in Fascist Spain \/ \u003cem\u003eErik Swyngedouw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 Getting the Scale Right? A Relational Scale Politics of Native Title in Australia \/ \u003cem\u003eRichard Howitt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Re\/Productive Scales\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8 The Cult of Urban Creativity \/ \u003cem\u003eJamie Peck\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 State Spaces of \"After Neoliberalism\": Co-Constituting the New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry \/ \u003cem\u003eWendy Larner, Nick Lewis, and Richard Le Heron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10 Public Health and the Political Economy of Scale: Implications for Understanding the Response to the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak in Toronto \/ \u003cem\u003eS. Harris Ali and Roger Keil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11 Of Scalar Hierarchies and Welfare Redesign: Child Care in Four Canadian Cities \/ \u003cem\u003eRianne Mahon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: The Scale of Movements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12 The Spatiality of Contentious Politics: More than a Politics of Scale \/ \u003cem\u003eHelga Leitner and Eric Sheppard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13 Regional Resistances in an Exurban Region: Intersections of the Politics of Place and the Politics of Scale \/ \u003cem\u003eGerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14 Revolutionary Cooks in the Hungry Ghetto: The Black Panther Party's Biopolitics of Scale from Below \/ \u003cem\u003eNik Heynen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15 The Empire, the Movement, and the Politics of Scale: Considering the World Social Forum \/ \u003cem\u003eJanet Conway\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion \/ \u003cem\u003eRianne Mahon and Roger Keil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"UBC Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656041591064,"sku":"9780774816311","price":25.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/leviathan-undone-towards-a-political-economy-of-scale-paperback-softback-9780774816311","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}