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.
Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century: The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
1st Edition
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By Thomas Muhr
March 04, 2015
Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey’s ‘co-revolutionary moments’ as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and ...
Global Civil Society and Transversal Hegemony: The Globalization-Contestation Nexus
1st Edition
By Karen Buckley
March 04, 2015
There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation. This book provides a conceptual history of global civil society and a critical examination of the politics of ...
Globalization, Knowledge and Labour: Education for Solidarity within Spaces of Resistance
1st Edition
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By Mario Novelli, Anibel Ferus-Comelo
December 23, 2014
This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that processes of neoliberal globalisation have altered the cartography upon which social struggle takes place. Drawing on insights from the knowledge ...
Labour and Development in East Asia: Social Forces and Passive Revolution
1st Edition
By Kevin Gray
October 16, 2014
The Chinese Communist Party’s response to the wave of factory strikes in the early summer of 2010 has raised important questions about the role that labour plays in the transformation of world orders. In contrast to previous policies of repression towards labour unrest, these recent disputes ...
China's Development: Capitalism and Empire
1st Edition
By Michel Aglietta, Guo Bai
April 27, 2015
China is entering a phase where deep structural changes will arise throughout society. These multi-fold processes will be intertwined in a globalized world, impacted by the transformation of capitalism in the aftermath of the financial crisis and under the threat of severe environmental damage. ...
Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order
1st Edition
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By Ronaldo Munck, Carl Schierup, Raúl Wise
April 27, 2015
Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession. A whole historical chapter – that of neoliberalism – has now closed and the future can only be deemed uncertain. Migrant workers were key players during this...
Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent
1st Edition
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By Lara Montesinos Coleman, Karen Tucker
April 27, 2015
The book examines some of the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering. Grounded in analysis of concrete practices of discipline and dissent in specific contexts, it explores the ways in which resistance can be shaped by dominant ...
Global Social Justice
1st Edition
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By Heather Widdows, Nicola Smith
May 01, 2011
1. Global Social Justice: An Introduction Heather Widdows and Nicola J. Smith 2. The Globalisation of Human Rights Leslie Sklair 3. Liberal Internationalism and Global Social Justice Kostas Koukouzelis 4. Moral Distance and Global Social Justice: An Archaeology of Borders Luis Cabrera 5. Global ...
Global Movement
1st Edition
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By Ruth Reitan
August 15, 2014
Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades. This volume provides a platform for scholar-activists themselves to share insights from engaged research and to critically reflect on movement histories and internal dynamics. It ...
From Empires to Imperialism: The State and the Rise of Bourgeois Civilisation
1st Edition
By Boris Kagarlitsky
June 23, 2014
Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The author exposes the myths of the spontaneous emergence of the market economy and the role of government as a disincentive towards private initiative, ...
Arab Revolutions and World Transformations
1st Edition
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By Anna Agathangelou, Nevzat Soguk
June 23, 2014
Stories about institutions and regimes that have failed us are echoing worldwide. This book critically engages the multiple uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) following the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010. It brings together authors who ...
Recognition and Redistribution: Beyond International Development
1st Edition
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By Heloise Weber, Mark T. Berger
December 12, 2013
This is an innovative and insightful approach to the global politics of development. The authors challenge conventional perspectives of, and approaches to, development and offer alternative accounts of the politics of development from the perspective of non-state centred and non-state centric ...