Geographical scale is a central concept enabling us to make sense
of the world we inhabit. Amongst other things, it allows us to
declare one event or process a national one and another a global or
regional one. However, geographical scales and how we think about
them are profoundly contested, and the spatial resolution at which
social processes take place - local, regional or global - together
with how we talk about them has significant implications for
understanding our world. Scale provides a structured investigation
of the debates concerning the concept of scale and how various
geographical scales have been thought about within critical social
theory. Specifically, the author examines how the scales of the
body, the urban, the regional, the national, and the global have
been conceptualized within Geography and the social sciences more
broadly. The first part of the book provides a comprehensive
overview of how different theoretical perspectives have regarded
scale, especially debates over whether scales are real things or
merely mental contrivances and/ or logical devices with which to
think, as well as the consequences of thinking of them in areal
versus in networked terms. The subsequent five chapters of the book
then each takes a particular scale: the body; the urban; the
regional; the national; the global and explores how it has been
conceptualized and represented discursively for political and other
purposes. A brief conclusion draws the book together by posing a
number of questions about scale which emerge from the foregoing
discussion. The first single-author volume ever written on the
subject of geographical scale, this book provides a unique overview
in pushing understandings of scale in new and original directions.
The accessible text is complimented by didactic boxes, and Scale
serves as a valuable pedagogical reference for undergraduate and
postgraduate audiences wishing to become familiar with such
theoretical issues.
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