Theorizing Impending Peripheries Postindustrial Landscapes at the Edge of Hyper-modernity’s Collapse 英文论文文献.docVIP

Theorizing Impending Peripheries: Postindustrial Landscapes at the Edge of Hyper-modernity’s Collapse Ismael Vaccaro, Ph.D. McGill University Ismael.vaccaro@mcgill.ca Abstract This article discusses the ways in which the predominant economic mechanisms of capitalism, characterized by a hyper-mobility of flows, affect actual places and people. The rationality informing these mechanisms is the quest for a reduction of costs and the increase of potential benefit, and this can only be achieved by jumping from locale to locale searching for a cheaper labor force, new pools of resources,