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Offshoring (Paperback)
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Offshoring (Paperback)
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Loot Price R523
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The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has
brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John
Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more
pervasive feature of contemporary societies. These often secretive
activities offshore also involve relations of work, finance,
pleasure, waste, energy and security. Powerful and pervasive
offshore worlds have been generated, posing huge challenges both
for governments and for citizens. This book documents the various
patterns of offshoring D of the economy, sociability, politics and
the environment. In each case, offshoring generates new patterns of
power, reduces the responsibilities of the powerful 'offshore
class', and limits the conditions for democratic governance.
Offshore, out of sight, over the horizon are some of the troubling
processes and metaphors by which much life has been rendered opaque
and dependent upon secrets and lies. By analysing these patterns
and processes, Urry sheds fresh light on the hidden worlds of
offshoring and exposes the dark side of globalization. The book
concludes by considering whether offshoring can be reversed D
whether it is possible to bring about the systematic reshoring of
relations that would be good for democracy and for developing
low-carbon futures. Urry portrays the coming century as being
poised between even more extreme offshoring and various endeavours
to bring back 'home' that which has currently escaped 'over the
horizon'.
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