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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.
Roger Keil is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and director of the City Institute at York University. Rianne Mahon is a professor and director of the Institute of Political Economy and a member of the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.
Contributors: S. Harris Ali, Janet Conway, Liette Gilbert, Nik Heynen, Richard Howitt, Bob Jessop, Stefan Kipfer, Wendy Larner, Richard Le Heron, Helga Leitner, Nick Lewis, Warren Magnusson, Byron Miller, Jamie Peck, L. Anders Sandberg, Eric Sheppard, Erik Swyngedouw, and Gerda R. Wekerle