Rethinking Globalizations
About the Book Series
This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalisation and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalisation, this series seeks to capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities for the future.
Social Movements, the Poor and the New Politics of the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Håvard Haarstad, Mark Amen, Asuncion Lera St Clair
October 14, 2024
Håvard Haarstad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. He has worked extensively on the political economy of natural resource extraction, and the role of social movements, civil society and labor unions in politicizing extraction.Mark Amen is ...
Globalization, Urbanization, and Civil Society: A Non-Western Critique
1st Edition
By Bagoes Wiryomartono
October 09, 2024
Globalization, Urbanization, and Civil Society is an interdisciplinary compilation of chapters concerning civil society in the global geopolitical context. The establishment of civil society is essential for urbanism and the global community because it is the sense and essence of development ...
The Rise of Green Extractivism: Extractivism, Rural Livelihoods and Accumulation in a Climate-Smart World
1st Edition
By Natacha Bruna
October 08, 2024
The Rise of Green Extractivism tackles the understudied interconnections between extractivism and climate-smart policies and their implications for rural livelihoods, both theoretically and empirically. This new variation of extractivism arises as an innovative way in which capitalist production ...
Challenging Authoritarian Capitalism: The Transformative Power of the World Social Forum
1st Edition
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By Thomas Wallgren, Uddhab Pyakurel, Catalina Revollo Pardo, Teivo Teivainen
May 27, 2024
The World Social Forum (WSF) was conceived as a platform for exchanging experiences and interlinking effective action. It has brought together people and social movements opposed to neoliberalism, imperialism and the domination of the world by capital. In this book, leading intellectual-activists ...
Economics and Climate Emergency
1st Edition
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By Barry K. Gills, Jamie Morgan
May 27, 2024
This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed. Thirty years have passed since the inception of the United ...
Global Political Leadership: In Search of Synergy
1st Edition
By Małgorzata Zachara-Szymańska
May 27, 2024
Global Political Leadership explores contemporary shifts in leadership, and the related leadership crisis, in the global world. Globalization is now perceived as a threatening and hostile force, with many of its advocates and political supporters turning away from it, but its processes cannot be ...
Globalizations from Below: The Normative Power of the World Social Forum, Ant Traders, Chinese Migrants, and Levantine Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
By Theodor Tudoroiu
May 27, 2024
Globalizations from Below uses a Constructivist International Relations approach that emphasizes the centrality of normative power to analyze and compare the four globalizations ‘from below.’ These are: (1) the counter-hegemonic globalization represented by the ‘movement of movements’ of ...
Post-Covid Transformations
1st Edition
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By Kevin Gray, Barry K. Gills
May 27, 2024
This volume explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the sustainability of the present global political and economic system and the extent to which that system may as a result be undergoing transformation. Towards this aim, the contributing authors raise a number of key questions. ...
The Reconfiguration of Twenty-first Century Latin American Regionalism: Actors, Processes, Contradictions and Prospects
1st Edition
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By Rowan Lubbock, Ernesto Vivares
May 27, 2024
This cutting-edge volume brings together a diverse roster of scholars to shed light on the reconfiguration of twenty-first century Latin American regionalism. Reflecting on both the multiplicity of regional integration across Latin America (LA) and the theoretically pluralist turn in contemporary ...
Labour Conflicts in the Global South
1st Edition
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By Andreas Bieler, Jörg Nowak
January 29, 2024
Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth ...
Re-Globalization: New Frontiers of Political, Economic, and Social Globalization
1st Edition
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By Roland Benedikter, Mirjam Gruber, Ingrid Kofler
January 29, 2024
Re-Globalization examines the changing face of globalization, with political, economic, and social balances in flux, and tensions increasing in many parts of the globe. This book discusses and problematizes the current transition phase of globalization in response to issues such as inequalities, ...
Time, Climate Change, Global Racial Capitalism and Decolonial Planetary Ecologies
1st Edition
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By Anna M. Agathangelou, Kyle D. Killian
January 29, 2024
This book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order to spark our imagination and inspire us to re-think the planetary, ecology, and otherwise. It presents debates that interrogate and elucidate the anxieties of the known and the unknown of this world and the planetary ...