The Violence of Abstraction: Globalization and the Politics of Place¹

David A. Sonnenfeld is Associate Professor of Community and Environmental Studies at Washington State University. He is co-editor of several collections on global environmental politics, including Ecological Modernisation Around the World: Perspectives and Critical Debates (2000); a symposium on “Globalization, Governance, and the Environment,” American Behavioral Scientist (2002); and Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry (2006, in press).