Political Science Economic Conditions
Leviathan Undone?
Towards a Political Economy of Scale
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2010
- Category
- Economic Conditions, General, General, Theory
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774858823
- Publish Date
- Jan 2010
- List Price
- $125.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774816311
- Publish Date
- Jan 2010
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774816304
- Publish Date
- May 2009
- List Price
- $95.00
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Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise of world cities and regions have shaken the discipline's foundations and fostered new interest in the concept of scale. Leviathan Undone? brings together leading theorists and scholars from a variety of disciplines to develop a new language to understand the spatial restructuring that has accompanied globalization. By treating scale as the core concept of our time, these innovative, groundbreaking essays bring a new sensibility to classical and contemporary concerns in Canadian and international political economy.
About the authors
Roger Keil is York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. A former director of York’s City Institute, he researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, and regional governance. He is the editor of Suburban Constellations (2013) and co-editor (with Pierre Hamel) of Suburban Governance: A Global View (2015).
RIANNE MAHON is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at Carleton University.