{"product_id":"tumultuous-politics-of-scale-hardback","title":"Tumultuous Politics of Scale - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eContemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estruggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over scale can be seen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas opaque class struggles. Political projects, whether from the ground up\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor representing corporate or state interests, continually contest the scale at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich authority is vested. This volume looks at the way global corporations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eredefi ne the scale of power and how working- class and other movements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebuild alliances and cross scales to develop political blocs. What injustices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare perpetrated or, more hopefully, redressed in this process? The book,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econsisting of contributions from anthropologists, geographers, and cultural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estudies scholars, explores theoretical issues around contested temporal and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espatial scales, and around variations in scale from the body to the global.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I focuses on bodies in motion, entangled in battles over new boundaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand political coalitions, and the ways in which migrants and refugees\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare disrupted by intersecting time scales. Part II on the nation- state addresses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe shifting responsibilities assigned by law at diff erent historical moments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the impact of global energy trade on national austerity policies. Part\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII, on rescaling sovereignty, discusses the misleading media discourse on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brexit” and reconstructs the class bases of the move to the Right in Eastern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEurope that threaten the EU. Part IV on the histories of changing scales of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emovements revisits historical debates on uneven and combined development,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand sets out the transnational labor movements of the eighteenthand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enineteenth- century Atlantic, which prefi gure contemporary struggles of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elabor in a world which is still one of uneven and combined capitalist development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, Part V considers ways in which some social movements are\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econstrained by scale while others reshape parties and traverse nations in their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeff orts to build class alliances and political blocs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45583163982062,"sku":"9780367186265","price":277.1,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780367186265.jpg?v=1721095366","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/tumultuous-politics-of-scale-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}