The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one. In short, punchy essays by distinguished researchers from across a range of disciplines, this book provides a new way of understanding globalization, moving away from the standard accounts of global forces, economic flows, and capitalist dynamics, to show how the ordinary, mundane minutiae of practices are crucial to the operation of globalization.

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

Edited by Nigel Thrift , Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick

Adam Tickell , Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Birmingham

Steve Woolgar , Professor of Marketing and Head of Science and Technology Studies, Saïd Business School,, University of Oxford

William H. Rupp , Administrative Officer, University of Warwick

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).