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.
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
Edited
By Kevin Gray, Barry 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 ...
Beyond the Global Land Grab: New Directions for Research on Land Struggles and Global Agrarian Change
1st Edition
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By Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Juan Liu, Ben M. McKay
September 25, 2023
The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the "global land grab", and sparked vibrant debates among social movements, NGOs, international development ...
Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses
1st Edition
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By Michelle Williams, Vishwas Satgar
September 25, 2023
In Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality. Through concrete empirical examples of movements, workers’ struggles, ...
Multiplicity: A New Common Ground for International Relations?
1st Edition
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By Justin Rosenberg, Milja Kurki
September 25, 2023
This volume takes up the idea of ‘multiplicity’ as a new common ground for international theory, bringing together 10 scholars to reflect on the implications of societal multiplicity for areas as diverse as nationalism, ecology, architecture, monetary systems, cosmology and the history of political...
Reglobalization
1st Edition
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By Matthew Louis Bishop, Anthony Payne
September 25, 2023
This book charts the way towards a better, repurposed globalization, which it calls ‘reglobalization’, and shows how this can be built, incrementally but realistically, via reforms to the partial and fragile existing structures of global governance. In making this argument, the book firmly rejects ...
Rising Powers, People Rising: Neoliberalization and its Discontents in the BRICS Countries
1st Edition
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By Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Karl von Holdt
September 25, 2023
Rising Powers, People Rising is a pathbreaking volume in which leading international scholars discuss the emerging political economy of development in the BRICS countries centred on neo-liberalization, precarity, and popular struggles. The rise of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China,...