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.
Che Lives!: The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Shannon Brincat
August 12, 2025
This book explores the vast and ongoing legacy of Che Guevara in world politics. It is one of the first volumes to explore both historical and contemporary manifestations of Che’s legacy, with an emphasis on the international dimensions of his thought and praxis. The chapters in this volume explore...
Socioecological Transformations: Linking Ontologies with Structures, Personal with Collective Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen
July 25, 2025
Socioecological Transformations confronts dominant framings of transformation that either remain apolitical and ahistorical, or overemphasizes the structural causes, while bypassing the ontological roots of the present-day socioecological violence and destruction. It challenges the technocratic and...
Processes of Economic Informalization: Reconfigurations of Law, Labour, and the State
1st Edition
By Ilona Steiler
June 25, 2025
Grounded on an analysis of informalized labour in the urban economy of Dar es Salaam, Processes of Economic Informalization explores the conceptual politics involved in the political construction of the informal economy – diverse economic activities that are not regulated or protected by the state,...
Globalizations: The Shape of Things to Come
1st Edition
By Heikki Patomäki
February 05, 2025
What can we say about the shape of things to come in world politics, the probability of different possibilities, and the reflexivity of our anticipations? Building on post-Keynesian economic theory and classical theories of imperialism, the book discusses anticipations that neoliberalism will push ...
Capital Redefined: A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life
1st Edition
By S. A. Hamed Hosseini, Barry K. Gills
January 30, 2025
Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of “capital,” departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory. They argue ...
The Far-Right in World Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Anievas, Richard Saull
November 01, 2024
This book addresses the reasons why the contemporary far-right has gained political resonance in a variety of states across both the Global North and South. The rise of far-right forms of politics in recent years throughout a range of geopolitical locales suggests the emergence of a distinct ...
Pink Tides, Right Turns in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Charmain Levy, Manuel Larrabure
October 18, 2024
This book presents case studies around issues of national development, right wing populism and use of social media, left wing authoritarianism and popular uprisings as well as reflections on short and long term political and economic cycles in Latin America in the past 10 years. Scholars, ...
From ‘Carbon Democracy’ to ‘Climate Democracy’?
1st Edition
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By James Goodman, Tom Morton
October 11, 2024
What are the democratic requirements for effective climate action? how can ‘climate democracy’ be conceptualised? Liberal democracies emerged on the back of fossil fuels, creating what Tim Mitchell called ‘carbon democracy’. Three decades of climate policy have affirmed the controlling influence of...
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 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 ...