Local politics, global impacts : steps to a multi-disciplinary analysis of scales / edited by Olivier Charnoz , Virginie Diaz Pedregal and Alan L Kolata

Includes index

Cover Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction Part I Epistemology 1 Fractal Social Facts: A Durkheimian Model for a Globalized Era 2The Scale Issue in Global International Environment Governance: For a Transdisciplinary Perspective Part II From Local to Global Dynamics 3 Corruption, Scale and Governance in India 4 Drugs, Local Politics and the Subversion of Global Counter-Narcotics Ideology in Burma's Eastern Borderlands, 1988-2012 5 The Political Economy of China's Urban Expansion and its Climate Cost: Insights from Nanjing 6 Scalar Effects in Transnational Networks: The Arab Spring and the Global Response Part III From Global to Local Dynamics 7 The Local Power Effects of Global Discourses: A Methodological Enquiry into "Community Participation" 8 A Containment Tool in Changing Hands: The Global Discourse on Participation in Latin America 9 The Effects of Donors' Ownership and Participatory Policy Ideas on Local Power Structures: A Case Study of Informal Settlements in Nairobi 10 Ownership and Participatory Processes: From Global Motto to Local Challenges. The Case of a Key Poverty Reduction Program in Ethnic Minority Areas of Vietnam 11 Globalization and Domestic Politics: A Call for Theoretical Reorientation Index

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