Space and Transport in the World-System by Bunker, Stephen G.

Space and Transport in the World-System (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313305023)

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Space and Transport in the World-System by Bunker, Stephen G.

Space and Transport in the World-System

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Space and Transport in the World-System by Bunker, Stephen G.

Space and Transport in the World-System

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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Key metaphors in world-system analysis are profoundly spatial, but there have been few attempts to understand how space, location, and topography affect world-system organization and process. To fill this gap, this book examines case studies of the restructuring of space and transport in core, semiperipheral, and peripheral economies. It addresses such topics as the role of ocean transport in linking terrestrially based units of the capitalist world economy, the role of land transport systems in the construction and restructuring of relationships between raw materials peripheries and core economies, and the role of the airplane in transforming and representing changing spatial, economic, and social relations in the capitalist world economy.

World-systems theory and many other perspectives on the world economy, including international political economy and analysis of globalization, typically pay only limited attention to issues of space, location, and the role of transportation in the world economy. This book identifies key theoretical and empirical issues and provides the basis for formulating research strategies to address this gap in our understanding.

Author: Stephen G. Bunker,Paul S. Ciccantell
ISBN-10: 0313305021
ISBN-13: 9780313305023
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 02/28/1998
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.53h x 6.47w x 0.98d
By Stephen G. Bunker
By Stephen G. Bunker
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PAUL S. CICCANTELL is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University. His research interests include the role of natural resource industries and transport systems in economic development in Latin America, North America, and Japan, organizational analysis of global natural resource industries, and the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

STEPHEN G. BUNKER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He has done research on peasant economies in Uganda, Guatemala, Peru, and Brazil. His recent work focuses on the organization of natural resource extraction, transport, and trade.

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