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 Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation
1st Edition
Edited
By Jason Struna
December 18, 2020
The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economic, and political practices related to globalization. At its core, it seeks to contextualize the rearticulation of nation-states and broad geographic ...
Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Bexell
December 18, 2020
Rules set by global governance organizations affect communities across the world. Such organizations increasingly seek to obtain legitimacy in the eyes of groups beyond their member state elites. This book advances scholarly debate on the politics of legitimacy and legitimation in global governance...
Migration, Civil Society and Global Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Branka Likic-Brboric, Raúl Delgado Wise, Gülay Toksöz
December 18, 2020
How do the United Nations, international organizations, governments, corporate actors and a wide variety of civil society organizations and regional and global trade unions perceive the root causes of migration, global inequality and options for sustainable development? This is one of the most ...
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 ...
BRICS and MICs: Implications for Global Agrarian Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Cousins, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Sérgio Sauer, Jingzhong Ye
September 30, 2020
The economic and political rise of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), and powerful middle-income countries (MICs) such as Argentina, Indonesia and Turkey, has far-reaching implications for global agrarian transformation. These countries are key sites of ...
Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State?
1st Edition
By Eija Ranta
August 14, 2020
Presenting an ethnographic account of the emergence and application of critical political alternatives in the Global South, this book analyses the opportunities and challenges of decolonizing and transforming a modern, hierarchical and globally-immersed nation-state on the basis of indigenous ...
Environmental Security in Transnational Contexts: What Relevance for Regional Human Security Regimes?
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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’, ...
The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: Leaving No-one Behind?
1st Edition
Edited
By Clive Gabay, Suzan Ilcan
June 30, 2020
This book represents an unusual intervention in debates about the nature of contemporary international development, where the majority of scholarship tends to concern itself with measuring or collating goal performance. Through a series of analyses of the United Nations Sustainable Development ...
Brexit and the Political Economy of Fragmentation: Things Fall Apart
1st Edition
Edited
By Jamie Morgan, Heikki Patomaki
December 18, 2019
Brexit means Brexit and other meaningless mantras have simply confirmed that confusion and uncertainty have dominated the early stages of this era defining event. Though there has been a lack of coherent and substantive policy goals from the UK government, this does not prevent analysis of the ...
Localization in Development Aid: How Global Institutions enter Local Lifeworlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Thorsten Bonacker, Judith von Heusinger, Kerstin Zimmer
December 12, 2019
This edited volume brings together the work of scholars from different disciplines including sociology, political science and anthropology, and analyses how global institutions are embedded in local contexts within development aid. It examines theoretical and empirical implications of the diffusion...
Time, Globalization and Human Experience: Interdisciplinary Explorations
1st Edition
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By Paul Huebener, Susie O'Brien, Tony Porter, Liam Stockdale, Yanqiu Rachel Zhou
December 12, 2019
This edited volume focuses on the intersection of time and globalization, as manifested across a variety of economic, political, cultural, and environmental contexts. Since David Harvey’s influential characterization of globalization as "time-space compression", ample research has looked at the ...