Geographies of Power: Placing Scale

List of Figures.
<p>List of Contributors.</p>
<p>Acknowledgments.</p>
<p>Placing Scale: An Introduction. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).</p>
<p>Part I: Theorizing Scale.</p>
<p>Introduction: Theorizing Scale. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).</p>
<p>1. Beyond Global vs. Local: Economic Politics Outside the Binary Frame. (J. K. Gibson–Graham).</p>
<p>2. The Urban as an Object of Study in Global Cities Literatures: Representational Practices and Conceptions of Place and Scale. (Eugene J. McCann).</p>
<p>3. Globalization, the Regulation Approach, and the Politics of Scale. (Kevin Cox).</p>
<p>4. Retheorizing the Scale of Globalization: Topologies, Actor–Networks, and Cosmopolitanism. (Alan Latham).</p>
<p>Part II: Rhetoric of Scale.</p>
<p>Introduction: Rhetoric of Scale. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).</p>
<p>5. Adventure Travel for the Mind : Analyzing the United States Virtual Trade Mission s Promotion of Globalization through Discourse and Corporate Media Strategies. (Ken Hillis, Michael Petit, and Altha J. Cravey).</p>
<p>6. Popular Culture, Academic Discourse, and the Incongruities of Scale. (Andrew Kirby).</p>
<p>7. Maintaining National Identity at the Border: Scale, Masculinity, and the Policing of Immigration in Southern California. (Susan P. Mains).</p>
<p>Part III: Scales of Praxis.</p>
<p>Introduction: Scales of Praxis. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright).</p>
<p>8. Contested Landscapes of Labor: Rival Unionism in the Farm Implements Industry. (Jeff Crump).</p>
<p>9. The Politics of Environmental Justice as the Politics of Scale: St. James Parish, Louisiana and the Shintech Siting Controversy. (Hilda Kurtz).</p>
<p>10. Networks, Governance, and the Politics of Scale: Inter–Urban Networks and the European Union. (Helga Leitner, Claire Pavlik, and Eric Sheppard).</p>
<p>Index.</p>