Introduction
Nigel Thrift, Adam Tickell, and Steve Woolgar: Respecifying
Globalization
Travel, tourism, and mobility
Peter Adey: Airports
Nick Clarke: Backpacking
Tim Ingold: Walking
Eric Laurier: Mobile Phone
Peter Merriman: Mobility
Annmarie Mol: World Maps
Harvey Molotch: Airport Security
John Torpey: Passports
John Urry and David Holley: Business Travel
Jackie West: Sex Workers
Alexandra Woolgar: Gap Year
Infrastructure and transport
Andrew Barry: Pipelines
Stephen J. Collier and Nino Kemoklidze: Pipes and Wires
Stephen Graham: Automated Repair and Back-up Systems
Daniel Neyland and Steve Woolgar: Global Recycling: The Case of
Electronic Waste
Daniel Neyland and Steve Woolgar: Road Safety and Traffic
Management
Susan M. Roberts: Containers
Paul Routledge: Resisting the Global
Helen Sampson: Globalization of a Labour Market: The Case of
Seafarers
Michael J. Watts: Banal Globalization: The Deep Structure of Oil
and Gas
Ragna Zeiss: Putting Standards to Work The Taste and Smell of
Globalization
Finance and business
Alex Hughes: Flowers
Michael Levi: Bureaux de Change
Donald MacKenzie: LIBOR
Kris Olds: Taking Note of Export Earnings
Barbara Penner: Filthy Lucre: Urine for Sale
Jocelyn Pixley: Emotion in Finance
Timothy J. Sinclair: Credit Rating Agencies
Janine R. Wedel: Globalization s Freelancers, Democracy s Decline:
Harvard, the Chubais Clan, and U.S. Aid to Russia
Caitlin Zaloom: Stock Trading
Media, consumption, and leisure
Franck Cochoy: Cigarette Packages: The Big Red Chevron and the 282
Little Kids
Rebecca M. Ellis: Collecting and Consumption in the Era of eBay
Christian Heath: Interaction Order of Auctions of Fine Art and
Antiques
Adrian Johns: Intellectual Property
Celia Lury: Curvature of Global Brand Space
Vijay Mishra: Bollywood
Gerard Toal: Global News (Service) Networks
Sumei Wang and Elizabeth Shove: How Rounders Goes Around the
World
Health and nature
Geoffrey C. Bowker: Biodiversity and Globalization
Catelijne Coopmans: Mobility and the Medical Image
Christopher Hall, Sue Peckover, and Sue White: e-Solutions to
Sharing Information in Child Protection: the Rise and Fall of
ContactPoint
Mimi Sheller: Globalizing of Bananas: Of Rhizomes, Fungi, and
Mobility Systems
Order and control
Nicholas Gill: Forms that Form
Peter Miller: Accounting for the Calculating Self
Daniel Neyland: Replaying Society to the World Through CCTV
Tom Osborne: AK-47 as a Material Global Artefact
Sharyn Roach Anleu: Human Rights
Classifications
Roger Burrows: Area Based Classifications
Jürgen Gerhards: First Names: Examples from Germany
Lucy Kimbell: One of My Top Ten Days
Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge: Barcodes and RDIF
Wendy Larner: ISO 9000
Helen Verran: Number
Nigel Thrift is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick. He
joined Warwick from the University of Oxford where he was made Head
of the Division of Life and Environmental Sciences in 2003 before
becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research in 2005. He has been the
recipient of a number of distinguished academic awards including
the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal for contributions to
geographic research in 2003, Distinguished Scholarship Honors from
the
Association of American Geographers in 2007 and the Royal Scottish
Geographical Society Gold Medal in 2008. He was made a Fellow of
the British Academy in 2003 and received an Honorary LLD from
the
University of Bristol in 2010. His current research spans a broad
range of interests, including international finance; cities and
political life; non-representational theory; affective politics;
and the history of time. Adam Tickell is Pro Vice-Chancellor
(Research and Knowledge Transfer) and Professor of Geography at the
University of Birmingham and has worked at the Universities of
Leeds, Manchester, Southampton and London. He received his BA and
PhD from the University of Manchester. He was
editor of Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, has
co-edited books on economic geography with Trevor Barnes, Jamie
Peck and Eric Sheppard and has authored numerous papers on his
areas of
interest.
Steve Woolgar is Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School,
University of Oxford, Head of the Science and Technology Studies
group at InSIS (Institute for Science, Innovation and Society), and
is a Professorial Fellow of Green Templeton College. He has
published widely in social studies of science and technology,
social problems and social theory, including Laboratory Life: the
construction of scientific facts (with B Latour, Princeton),
Science: the Very Idea
(Routledge), Knowledge and Reflexivity (Sage), The Cognitive Turn:
sociological and psychological perspectives on science (with
S.Fuller and M.de Mey, Kluwer), Representation in Scientific
Practice (with M. Lynch, MIT), The
Machine at Work: technology, organisation and work (with K.Grint,
Polity), and Virtual Society? Technology, cyberbole, reality (OUP).
William H. Rupp received his doctorate from the University of
Warwick and holds degrees from the University of Toronto and
Wilfrid Laurier University. Currently, he is engaged with Warwick's
Widening Participation work and is responsible for a major outreach
programme. He also served as assistant editor to The European World
1500-1800
(ed. Beat Kümin; Routledge 2009 with 2nd ed. forthcoming).
The book provides thought-provoking snapshots of globalization
*Julia F. Hibbert*
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