1st Edition
Local Politics, Global Impacts Steps to a Multi-disciplinary Analysis of Scales
Serving as a touchstone for a much-needed research program on social scales, this volume challenges disciplinary boundaries and brings into focus a paradoxical state of affairs in contemporary thought: the domain of local-global interactions has not yet been identified as an object of analysis in its own right, despite engaging a large, multi-disciplinary research community with strong potential for cross-fertilization. Bringing together internationally renowned as well as emerging scholars, this book presents concrete case studies framed by theoretical concern with the issue of scale. It demonstrates that a diverse array of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives can productively converge on a common set of problems related to social, temporal and spatial scales and contemporary globalization. Local Politics, Global Impacts will stimulate empirical and theoretical research that focuses on understanding how political concepts, practices, and instruments translate across scales, and contribute to the emergence of a self-aware community of scholars and practitioners focusing explicitly on modelling the dynamics of local-regional-global interactions.
Biography
Olivier Charnoz is a Political Scientist and international consultant in development and global governance issues. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. Virginie Diaz Pedregal is a research fellow in political sociology, at the AFD Research Department (French Development Agency) in Paris. Alan Kolata is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.
’Finally a contribution to global governance that takes the study of power relations all the way down to the local level! Understanding the recursive impact of global and local dynamics is crucial for development practice and a feature of all of the most pressing issues in current times.’ Cornelia Woll, Sciences Po Paris, France ’The two-way interaction between global politics and local politics is an essential but under-explored question in several academic disciplines. This volume breaks new ground by combining sophisticated theoretical perspectives on the scale problem in global governance with a series of empirically rich and thought-provoking case studies. The collection should become an important point of reference for the next generation of studies on political processes spanning spatial scales.’ Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
