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, Knowledge and Labour: Education for Solidarity within Spaces of Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Mario Novelli, Anibel Ferus-Comelo
December 22, 2014
This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that processes of neoliberal globalisation have altered the cartography upon which social struggle takes place. Drawing on insights from the knowledge ...
Labour and Development in East Asia: Social Forces and Passive Revolution
1st Edition
By Kevin Gray
December 08, 2014
The Chinese Communist Party’s response to the wave of factory strikes in the early summer of 2010 has raised important questions about the role that labour plays in the transformation of world orders. In contrast to previous policies of repression towards labour unrest, these recent disputes ...
China's Development: Capitalism and Empire
1st Edition
By Michel Aglietta, Guo Bai
November 10, 2014
China is entering a phase where deep structural changes will arise throughout society. These multi-fold processes will be intertwined in a globalized world, impacted by the transformation of capitalism in the aftermath of the financial crisis and under the threat of severe environmental damage. ...
Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order
1st Edition
Edited
By Ronaldo Munck, Carl Schierup, Raúl Wise
November 10, 2014
Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession. A whole historical chapter – that of neoliberalism – has now closed and the future can only be deemed uncertain. Migrant workers were key players during this...
Situating Global Resistance: Between Discipline and Dissent
1st Edition
Edited
By Lara Montesinos Coleman, Karen Tucker
November 10, 2014
The book examines some of the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering. Grounded in analysis of concrete practices of discipline and dissent in specific contexts, it explores the ways in which resistance can be shaped by dominant ...
Global Social Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Widdows, Nicola Smith
September 11, 2014
1. Global Social Justice: An Introduction Heather Widdows and Nicola J. Smith 2. The Globalisation of Human Rights Leslie Sklair 3. Liberal Internationalism and Global Social Justice Kostas Koukouzelis 4. Moral Distance and Global Social Justice: An Archaeology of Borders Luis Cabrera 5. Global ...
Global Movement
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruth Reitan
August 12, 2014
Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades. This volume provides a platform for scholar-activists themselves to share insights from engaged research and to critically reflect on movement histories and internal dynamics. It ...
From Empires to Imperialism: The State and the Rise of Bourgeois Civilisation
1st Edition
By Boris Kagarlitsky
June 25, 2014
Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The author exposes the myths of the spontaneous emergence of the market economy and the role of government as a disincentive towards private initiative, ...
Arab Revolutions and World Transformations
1st Edition
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By Anna Agathangelou, Nevzat Soguk
June 19, 2014
Stories about institutions and regimes that have failed us are echoing worldwide. This book critically engages the multiple uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) following the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010. It brings together authors who ...
Recognition and Redistribution: Beyond International Development
1st Edition
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By Heloise Weber, Mark T. Berger
December 11, 2013
This is an innovative and insightful approach to the global politics of development. The authors challenge conventional perspectives of, and approaches to, development and offer alternative accounts of the politics of development from the perspective of non-state centred and non-state centric ...
Challenging Euro-America's Politics of Identity: The Return of the Native
1st Edition
By Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes
November 08, 2013
In this fascinating book, Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes critically examines the impact of colonialism and postcolonial migration on the politics and identity of Euro-American imperial powers. It considers how ‘outsiders’ are part of the construction of the ‘native’ identity of the nation-state,...
Power and Transnational Activism
1st Edition
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By Thomas Olesen
November 07, 2013
This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism. Bringing together scholars from IR, sociology, and political science, this book offers new and critical insights on global ...