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.
Chinese Labour in the Global Economy: Capitalist Exploitation and Strategies of Resistance
1st Edition
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By Andreas Bieler, Chun-Yi Lee
January 23, 2019
Chinese development is widely considered to be an example of successful developmental catch-up with double-digit growth rates year on year. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in ...
From International Relations to World Civilizations: The Contributions of Robert W. Cox
1st Edition
Edited
By Shannon Brincat
January 23, 2019
This volume explores the work of Robert W. Cox across International Relations, International Political Economy, and International Historical Sociology. Robert W. Cox has been a key figure in so-called critical approaches to world politics, contributing to the inter-paradigm debate in IR, pioneering...
Time and Globalization: An interdisciplinary dialogue
1st Edition
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By Paul Huebener, Susie O'Brien, Tony Porter, Liam Stockdale, Yanqiu Rachel Zhou
January 17, 2019
Both academic and popular representations of globalization, critical or celebratory, have tended to conceptualize it primarily in spatial terms, rather than simultaneously temporal ones. However, time, in both its ideational and material dimensions, has played an important role in mediating and ...
The Politics of Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice and Social Movements
1st Edition
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By Annie Shattuck, Christina Schiavoni, Zoe VanGelder
January 16, 2019
Food sovereignty has been a fundamentally contested concept in global agrarian discourse over the last two decades, as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement, and an analytical framework. It has inspired and mobilized diverse publics: workers, scholars and public ...
Global Insurrectional Politics
1st Edition
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By Nevzat Soguk
January 11, 2019
The recent Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have attracted scholarly attention as popular movements with novel transnational and religious dimensions. What became known as the Arab Spring can be read as part of a broader politics of normative defiance of predominant political ...
The New Global Politics: Global Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
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By Harry Vanden, Peter Funke, Gary Prevost
October 25, 2018
Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide, from the demonstrations that helped bring progressive governments to power in Latin America, to the Arab Spring, to Occupy movements in the United States and Europe, to democracy protests in China. This...
The State–Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis: Rebound of the Capitalist State
1st Edition
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By Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Naná de Graaff, Henk W. Overbeek
August 23, 2018
In the wake of the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008, many observers expected the state to assume command over a faltering neoliberal finance-led model of capitalism. We now know that this expectation was by and large mistaken. There is indeed an ongoing re-calibration of the state-capital ...
Globalization and Global Citizenship: Interdisciplinary Approaches
1st Edition
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By Irene Langran, Tammy Birk
January 12, 2018
Globalization and Global Citizenship examines the meaning and realities of global citizenship as a manifestation of recent trends in globalization. In an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters outline and analyse the most significant dimensions of global citizenship, including transnational, ...
Markets and Development: Civil Society, Citizens and the Politics of Neoliberalism
1st Edition
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By Toby Carroll, Darryl Jarvis
January 12, 2018
Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the political relationship between citizens, civil society, and neoliberal development policy’s latest form. The dramatic increase of ‘access to finance’ investments, newly gender-sensitive approaches to building ...
Occupying Subjectivity: Being and Becoming Radical in the 21st Century
1st Edition
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By Chris Rossdale
January 12, 2018
This book explores a variety of forms of radical political subjectivity. It takes its cue from the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the Occupy Movement and the European Anti-Austerity Movement, alongside the wider opposition to authoritarian and neoliberal forms of governance ...
Critical Rationalism and Globalization: Towards the Sociology of the Open Global Society
1st Edition
By Masoud Mohammadi Alamuti
October 26, 2017
Critical Rationalism and Globalization addresses how the access to critical reason enables people to shape a new social order on a global scale. This book demonstrates how the philosophy of critical rationalism contributes to the sociology of Globalization, through uncovering the role of critical ...
Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics: Sovereignty and state power in a multipolar world
1st Edition
By Daniel Woodley
October 26, 2017
Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics is concerned with the nature of corporate power against the backdrop of the decline of the West and the struggle by non-western states to challenge and overcome domination of the rest of the world by the West. This book argues that although the US continues ...