The Second Great Transformation: The Politics of Globalisation in the Global North

Sites for health rights: Local, national, regional and global

“…When considering where the right to health is implemented, human geographers and other social scientists have to some extent contributed to debates on civil and political rights by arguing that how space is controlled can exclude marginal peoples from invoking their rights (Blomley & Pratt, 2001;Honey, 2004;Mitchell, 2003;Smith, 2000). Others have focused on spatial aspects of human rights and development (Maharaj, 2004), the implications of globalisation on human rights (Zincone & Agnew, 2000), networks for human rights (Bosco, 2007;McFarlane, 2009) and social, economic and cultural rights such as labour rights (Harvey, 2000). Links between health and human rights and geography are also emerging in research on HIV/AIDS and access to services and essential medicines (Jones, 2004;Luginaah, Yiridoe, & Taabazuing, 2005), local and global movements during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic (Teo, Yeoh, & Ong, 2005), landscapes of care (Milligan & Wiles, 2010) and the use of human rights law to build a normative approach to health geography (Carmalt & Faubion, 2010).…”

The reflexive modernization of Australian universities

“…Clark (1998) contends that the hyperglobalist position misses the point: nation states are not only the vehicles of globalization, but are also reconstituted by it through a discontinuous and reversible process that is politically driven and sustained. Indeed, Beck (2000) and Zincone and Agnew (2000) argue that the hyperglobalist thesis is grounded in neo-liberalism-the high politics of hyperglobalism-even though it presents itself as being non-political. For Zincone and Agnew (2000), this means globalization is a new form of imperialism: the application of world market laws that must be implemented and obeyed according to neo-liberal interpretations.…”

“…Indeed, Beck (2000) and Zincone and Agnew (2000) argue that the hyperglobalist thesis is grounded in neo-liberalism-the high politics of hyperglobalism-even though it presents itself as being non-political. For Zincone and Agnew (2000), this means globalization is a new form of imperialism: the application of world market laws that must be implemented and obeyed according to neo-liberal interpretations. In the hyperglobalist view, politics and economics are fused into one.…”

A Networked Space of Meaning? Spatial Politics as Geostrategies of European Integration

“…It has long outgrown 'objective' functional approaches and incorporated complex social theory and political economy in its analyses of the state and the international system. Consequently, at the beginning of the 21st century, contradictions between territorial control (as embodied by state power) and interdependent economic and political space on a global scale lie at the centre of political geography's agenda (Hirsch, 1995;Zincone and Agnew, 2000). These contradictions are re ected in the gradual shifting and/or relocation of spatial scales within which policy is both formulated and carried out.…”