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Geographies of Globalization by Warwick E. Murray, Routledge, London and New York, 2006, 392 pp. paper US$41.95 (ISBN 0-415-31800-9)
Globalization provokes unease within much of academia, Katharine Rankin recently asserts. As she says, despite the comparative advantages fields such as anthropology and geography theoretically bring to the debates, the 'phenomena of globalization threatens to rupture established boundaries between academic disciplines, as well as render irrelevant old modes of inquiry within them' (Rankin 2003, p. 708). For non-geographers who speak of the 'end of geography', departments of human geography who are feeling the squeeze from global studies programs and geographers who feel they are '... poorly understood by other academics and ......
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