Tumultuous Politics of Scale

<p>Contemporary politics this book contends depend upon the turbulent</p><p>struggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over scale can be seen</p><p>as opaque class struggles. Political projects whether from the ground up</p><p>or representing corporate or state interests continually contest the scale at</p><p>which authority is vested. This volume looks at the way global corporations</p><p>redefi ne the scale of power and how working- class and other movements</p><p>build alliances and cross scales to develop political blocs. What injustices</p><p>are perpetrated or more hopefully redressed in this process? The book</p><p>consisting of contributions from anthropologists geographers and cultural</p><p>studies scholars explores theoretical issues around contested temporal and</p><p>spatial scales and around variations in scale from the body to the global.</p><p>Part I focuses on bodies in motion entangled in battles over new boundaries</p><p>and political coalitions and the ways in which migrants and refugees</p><p>are disrupted by intersecting time scales. Part II on the nation- state addresses</p><p>the shifting responsibilities assigned by law at diff erent historical moments</p><p>and the impact of global energy trade on national austerity policies. Part</p><p>III on rescaling sovereignty discusses the misleading media discourse on</p><p>“Brexit” and reconstructs the class bases of the move to the Right in Eastern</p><p>Europe that threaten the EU. Part IV on the histories of changing scales of</p><p>movements revisits historical debates on uneven and combined development</p><p>and sets out the transnational labor movements of the eighteenthand</p><p>nineteenth- century Atlantic which prefi gure contemporary struggles of</p><p>labor in a world which is still one of uneven and combined capitalist development.</p><p>Finally Part V considers ways in which some social movements are</p><p>constrained by scale while others reshape parties and traverse nations in their</p><p>eff orts to build class alliances and political blocs.</p>