Fruitful new avenues of theorization and research have been opened by recent writings on
the production of geographical scale. However, this outpouring of research on scale …

Every now and then, a book comes along that you positively want to be asked to read and
review, and this is one of them a major work of scholarship in its own right, while at the same …

Geographical scale is a central concept enabling us to make sense of the world we inhabit.
Amongst other things, it allows us to declare one event or process a national one and …

The grassroots environmental movement often protests locally unwanted land uses. Many
grassroots groups have, however, expanded their agenda to the scale of environmental …

Despite the centrality of war in social and political thought, the military remains marginal in
academic and public conceptions of citizenship, and the soldier seems to be thought of as a …

In the context of ongoing debates over the effects of “globalization” on organized labor and,
specifically, recent experiments in labor internationalism, this paper examines the …

Studies of organizational globalization typically assume that space is progressively
'overcome', resulting in the convergence of organizational logics, or that organizations …

'Our streets! Our world!'So answered the amazing coalition of activists–labor, environmental,
peace and justice, anti-genetically modified food, health, housing–gathered in Seattle in the …

Contemporary Economic Sociology closely examines critical and contemporary issues in the
sociology of economic life. Bringing together a range of theoretical perspectives, Fran …

Reaching beyond statistics and prevalent assumptions, Uninsured in America goes to the
heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health …