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The Tumultuous Politics of Scale - Unsettled States, Migrants, Movements in Flux (Paperback)
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The Tumultuous Politics of Scale - Unsettled States, Migrants, Movements in Flux (Paperback)
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Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the
turbulent struggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over
scale can be seen as opaque class struggles. Political projects,
whether from the ground up or representing corporate or state
interests, continually contest the scale at which authority is
vested. This volume looks at the way global corporations redefi ne
the scale of power and how working- class and other movements build
alliances and cross scales to develop political blocs. What
injustices are perpetrated or, more hopefully, redressed in this
process? The book, consisting of contributions from
anthropologists, geographers, and cultural studies scholars,
explores theoretical issues around contested temporal and spatial
scales, and around variations in scale from the body to the global.
Part I focuses on bodies in motion, entangled in battles over new
boundaries and political coalitions, and the ways in which migrants
and refugees are disrupted by intersecting time scales. Part II on
the nation- state addresses the shifting responsibilities assigned
by law at diff erent historical moments and the impact of global
energy trade on national austerity policies. Part III, on rescaling
sovereignty, discusses the misleading media discourse on "Brexit"
and reconstructs the class bases of the move to the Right in
Eastern Europe that threaten the EU. Part IV on the histories of
changing scales of movements revisits historical debates on uneven
and combined development, and sets out the transnational labor
movements of the eighteenthand nineteenth- century Atlantic, which
prefi gure contemporary struggles of labor in a world which is
still one of uneven and combined capitalist development. Finally,
Part V considers ways in which some social movements are
constrained by scale while others reshape parties and traverse
nations in their eff orts to build class alliances and political
blocs.
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