Leviathan Undone?

Towards a Political Economy of Scale

Edited by Roger Keil & Rianne Mahon
Categories: Political Science, Business, Economics & Industry, Business, Economics
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774816304, 380 pages, May 2009
Paperback : 9780774816311, 380 pages, January 2010
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774816328, 380 pages, January 2010
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9780774852890, 380 pages, August 2014
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774858823, 380 pages, January 2010
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Table of contents

Preface
Introduction / Rianne Mahon and Roger Keil

 

Part 1: The Scalar Turn

 

1 A Thousand Leaves: Notes on the Geographies of Uneven Spatial Development / Neil Brenner

 

2 Is Scale a Chaotic Concept? Notes on Processes of Scale Production / Byron Miller

 

3 Why the Urban Question Still Matters: Reflections on Rescaling and the Promise of the Urban / Stefan Kipfer

 

Part 2: Political Scales

 

4 Avoiding Traps, Rescaling States, Governing Europe / Bob Jessop

 

5 Scaling Government to Politics / Warren Magnusson

 

6 Producing Nature, Scaling Environment: Water, Networks, and Territories in Fascist Spain / Erik Swyngedouw

 

7 Getting the Scale Right? A Relational Scale Politics of Native Title in Australia / Richard Howitt

 

Part 3: Re/Productive Scales

 

8 The Cult of Urban Creativity / Jamie Peck

 

9 State Spaces of “After Neoliberalism”: Co-Constituting the New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry / Wendy Larner, Nick Lewis, and Richard Le Heron

 

10 Public Health and the Political Economy of Scale: Implications for Understanding the Response to the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak in Toronto / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil

 

11 Of Scalar Hierarchies and Welfare Redesign: Child Care in Four Canadian Cities / Rianne Mahon

 

Part 4: The Scale of Movements

 

12 The Spatiality of Contentious Politics: More than a Politics of Scale / Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard

 

13 Regional Resistances in an Exurban Region: Intersections of the Politics of Place and the Politics of Scale / Gerda R. Wekerle, L. Anders Sandberg, and Liette Gilbert

 

14 Revolutionary Cooks in the Hungry Ghetto: The Black Panther Party’s Biopolitics of Scale from Below / Nik Heynen

 

15 The Empire, the Movement, and the Politics of Scale: Considering the World Social Forum / Janet Conway

 

Conclusion / Rianne Mahon and Roger Keil

 

References

 

Contributors

Bringing together leading theorists and scholars in contemporary spatial thinking and political economy, this volume presents an unprecedented collection of innovative essays and case studies on scale and the complex restructuring of our global society.

Description

Caught 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. Leviathan Undone? 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.