Exploring a wide range of issues, from the integration of the world economy to how contemporary processes are shaping and shaped by nation-states and how workers are organizing transnationally in response to transformations in the planet’s economic geography, Geographies of Globalization by Andrew Herod, professor of geography, is an examination of the leitmotif of our world.
The new book challenges assumptions on the nature of globalization, provides a conceptual overview of how globalization is a spatial process and its relation to capitalism, and explores whether the world is more globalized or only more internationalized.
It also considers arguments concerning whether globalization is a new phenomenon or simply the latest manifestation of processes many hundreds of years in the making.
The book focuses on how nation-states have shaped, and been shaped by globalization and how workers have responded.
Herod recently received UGA’s William A. Owens Award for his research.