{"product_id":"the-tumultuous-politics-of-scale-donald-m-nonini-9780367186241","title":"The Tumultuous Politics of Scale: Unsettled States, Migrants, Movements in Flux","description":"\u003cp\u003eContemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulent\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003estruggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over scale can be seen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eas opaque class struggles. Political projects, whether from the ground up\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eor representing corporate or state interests, continually contest the scale at\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewhich authority is vested. This volume looks at the way global corporations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eredefi ne the scale of power and how working- class and other movements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebuild alliances and cross scales to develop political blocs. What injustices\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eare perpetrated or, more hopefully, redressed in this process? The book, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003econsisting of contributions from anthropologists, geographers, and cultural\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003estudies scholars, explores theoretical issues around contested temporal and\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003espatial scales, and around variations in scale from the body to the global.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I focuses on bodies in motion, entangled in battles over new boundaries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand political coalitions, and the ways in which migrants and refugees\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eare disrupted by intersecting time scales. Part II on the nation- state addresses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe shifting responsibilities assigned by law at diff erent historical moments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand the impact of global energy trade on national austerity policies. Part\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII, on rescaling sovereignty, discusses the misleading media discourse on\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Brexit\" and reconstructs the class bases of the move to the Right in Eastern\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEurope that threaten the EU. Part IV on the histories of changing scales of\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emovements revisits historical debates on uneven and combined development, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eand sets out the transnational labor movements of the eighteenthand\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003enineteenth- century Atlantic, which prefi gure contemporary struggles of\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003elabor in a world which is still one of uneven and combined capitalist development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinally, Part V considers ways in which some social movements are\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003econstrained by scale while others reshape parties and traverse nations in their\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eeff orts to build class alliances and political blocs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald M. Nonini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367186241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367186241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2021","brand":"Donald M. Nonini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465460404479,"sku":"9780367186241","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ae59877-92e6-4c9f-bfbe-5ebdd70ddaa3.jpg?v=1736346311","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tumultuous-politics-of-scale-donald-m-nonini-9780367186241","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}