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.
Unity on the Global Left: Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry Gills, Christopher Chase-Dunn
September 25, 2023
This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin’s call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples. Amin’s proposal is applauded, criticized and reformulated by these scholar-activists who are all proponents of ways ...
Why Globalization Matters: Engaging with Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Barrie Axford
September 25, 2023
In what are generally understood as unsettled times, this book explores the possibility and desirability of bringing integrated theory back into globalization research. While there can hardly be a single and all-encompassing ‘grand theory’ of globalization-in-itself, is there scope for the ...
Extractivisms, Existences and Extinctions: Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation
1st Edition
By Markus Kröger
May 31, 2023
This book explores the existential redistributions that extractivist frontiers create, going beyond existing studies by bringing into the English-language discussion much of the wisdom from Latin American rural and forest communities’ understandings of extractivist phenomena, and the destruction ...
Global Justice and Resource Curse: Combining Statism and Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
By Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere
May 31, 2023
This book explores whether any theory alone is sufficiently capable of resolving the complexity of global justice, arguing that a combination of statism and cosmopolitanism is needed. In current times, xenophobia, nationalism and populism have amplified othering in both domestic and international ...
Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy
1st Edition
By Radhika Desai
December 09, 2022
Capitalism, Coronavirus and War investigates the decay of neoliberal financialised capitalism as revealed in the crisis the novel coronavirus triggered but did not cause, a crisis that has been deepened by the conflict over Ukraine and its repercussions across the globe. Leading domestically to ...
The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India’s Foreign Policy
1st Edition
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By Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Shantanu Chakrabarti
September 26, 2022
This book investigates the interplay of internal and external constraints, challenges and possibilities regarding foreign policy in India. It is the first attempt to systematically analyse and focus on the different actors and institutions in the domestic and international contexts who impose and ...
Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Damien Cahill, Martijn Konings, Adam David Morton
May 01, 2022
Revisiting the magnetic poles of Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek on the utopian springs of political economy, this book seeks to provide a compass for questioning the market economy of the twenty-first century. For Polanyi, in The Great Transformation, the utopian springs of the dogma of ...
Between Class and Discourse: Left Intellectuals in Defence of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Boris Kagarlitsky
April 29, 2022
This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, comparing it with the problems facing leftist politics in Russia and other countries. The author presents a radical critique of the current state of the Western left which puts discourse above class interest ...
The Redesign of the Global Financial Architecture: State Authority, New Risks and Dynamics
2nd Edition
By Stuart P. M. Mackintosh
April 29, 2022
More than ten years on from the most intense phase of the global financial crisis, and the collective international response in the G20 summit in London, a ‘new normal’ has emerged with systems in place to mitigate against further banking crises. This updated new edition analyzes this post-crisis ...
The Role of Religion in Struggles for Global Justice: Faith in justice?
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter J. Smith, Katharina Glaab, Claudia Baumgart-Ochse, Elizabeth Smythe
December 18, 2020
Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe, addressing global inequalities, challenging neoliberal market driven globalization and demanding to remedy its negative implications. This book examines the roles religious communities and organizations in ...
Environmental Security in Transnational Contexts: What Relevance for Regional Human Security Regimes?
1st Edition
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By Harlan Koff, Carmen Maganda
June 30, 2020
Much of the discussion surrounding the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the post-2015 global development agenda has contextualized sustainable development within the framework of ‘transformation’, specifically prioritizing concepts such as equity, security, justice, and ...
Feminist Global Political Economies of the Everyday
1st Edition
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By Juanita Elias, Adrienne Roberts
June 30, 2020
This collection interrogates the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered socio-economic practices at the level of the ‘everyday’. It brings feminist insights to bear on the emerging International Political Economy (IPE) debates about ‘the everyday’, ...