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.
Globalization: The Career of a Concept
1st Edition
Edited
By Manfred Steger, Paul James
July 27, 2017
One of the keywords of our time, ‘globalization’ frames how we understand our interconnected world. An ambiguous signifier carrying multiple meanings, the term is usually used to refer to the extension and intensification of social relations across the world. Many works have been authored that deal...
Dialectics in World Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Shannon Brincat
April 13, 2017
This volume explores the conceptual, methodological and praxeological aspects of dialectical analysis in world politics. As dialectics has remained an under-theorised analytical tool in international relations, this volume provides a critical resource for those seeking to deploy dialectics in their...
Globalization Development and Social Justice: A propositional political approach
1st Edition
By Ann El Khoury
December 07, 2016
Are there existing alternatives to corporate globalization? What are the prospects for and commonalities between communities and movements such as Occupy, the World Social Forum and alternative economies? Globalization Development and Social Justice advances the proposition that another ...
Contentious Agency and Natural Resource Politics
1st Edition
By Markus Kröger
November 08, 2016
The looming depletion of non-renewable resources has increased the global land grab in the past decade. So far however, the question of how and when people can influence economic outcomes has received little attention in the study of social movements. Based on in-depth ethnographic field research ...
Development in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Henry Veltmeyer
November 08, 2016
This book analyses the progress and failures of capitalist development against the backdrop of an increasingly globalised world economy organised on neoliberal principles. It brings together eminent writers on the political economy of international development such as Kari Polanyi-Levitt, Norman ...
Global Justice and the Politics of Information: The struggle over knowledge
1st Edition
By Sky Croeser
November 08, 2016
The global social justice movement attempts to build a more equitable, democratic, and environmentally sustainable world. However, this book argues that actors involved need to recognise knowledge - including scientific and technological systems - to a greater extent than they presently do. The ...
Rethinking Border Control for a Globalizing World: A Preferred Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Leanne Weber
August 23, 2016
This book provides a new point of departure for thinking critically and creatively about international borders and the perceived need to defend them, adopting an innovative ‘preferred future’ methodology. The authors critically examine a range of ‘border domains’ including law, citizenship, ...
Global Governance and NGO Participation: Shaping the information society in the United Nations
1st Edition
By Charlotte Dany
October 29, 2015
This book explores the limits of NGO influence and the conditions that constrain NGOs when they participate in international negotiations Through an empirically rich study of the UN World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS) this book conceptualizes structural power mechanisms that shape ...
Free Trade and Transnational Labour
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Bieler, Bruno Ciccaglione, John Hilary, Ingemar Lindberg
July 23, 2015
‘Free trade’ strategies have increasingly become a problem for the international labour movement. While trade unions in the North especially in manufacturing have supported free trade agreements to secure export markets for their companies, trade unions in the Global South oppose these agreements, ...
Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics
1st Edition
Edited
By James Goodman, Jonathan Marshall
July 22, 2015
Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises – social, ecological, political. In the past, crises of global order have generated large-scale social transformations, and the current crises likewise hold a transformative promise. Social movements become a crucial barometer, in signalling ...
Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century: The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Muhr
February 27, 2015
Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey’s ‘co-revolutionary moments’ as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and ...
Global Civil Society and Transversal Hegemony: The Globalization-Contestation Nexus
1st Edition
By Karen Buckley
February 27, 2015
There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation. This book provides a conceptual history of global civil society and a critical examination of the politics of ...