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.
Cultures of Globalization: Coherence, Hybridity, Contestation
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin Archer, M. Martin Bosman, M. Mark Amen, Ella Schmidt
November 06, 2013
Much has been written about the economic and political implications of the contemporary process of globalization. Much less has been written about the specific cultural implications. Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this book seeks to add to our knowledge of the latter by...
Land Grabbing and Global Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Matias E. Margulis, Nora McKeon, Saturnino Borras Jr.
October 17, 2013
Land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, given its historical precedents in the eras of imperialism. However, the character, scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land grabs is a distinct historical event closely tied to the changing dynamics of the global agri-food, ...
Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Amar
August 14, 2013
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order – the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military industries: Brazil has taken charge of the UN military ...
Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities
1st Edition
By Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
March 21, 2013
Moving beyond polemical debates on globalization, this study considers complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and class within the field of globalized labor. As a significant contribution to the on-going debate on the role of neoliberal states in reproducing gender-race-class...
Edges of Global Justice: The World Social Forum and Its 'Others'
1st Edition
By Janet M. Conway
February 26, 2013
This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity. Based on ten years of fieldwork on three continents, this book treats social movements as knowledge producers. It pays attention to what movements are doing and ...
Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
1st Edition
Edited
By Manfred Steger, Anne McNevin
February 14, 2013
How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. From Sydney to ...
The Social Economy: Working Alternatives in a Globalizing Era
1st Edition
By Hasmet M. Uluorta
October 02, 2012
Critically examining economic developments within the last sixty years, this book argues that a crisis in global social reproduction is altering existing understandings of work, labour and the economy. The author of this original volume, Hasmet M. Uluorta, contends that the crisis in the global ...
Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development: Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Manning, Barry K. Gills
February 17, 2012
This work focuses on the ideas and influence of Andre Gunder Frank, one of the founding figures and leading analysts of political economy at the global level. Through discussion of his work the contributors in this volume examine the shifting currents of the world economy and the accompanying ...
A History of World Order and Resistance: The Making and Unmaking of Global Subjects
1st Edition
By Andre C. Drainville
February 09, 2012
This book combines theory with history to look into a dozen episodes of struggle over the concrete and situated terms of world ordering, and it finds reasons to think that the contemporary 'movement of movements' against neo-liberal globalization has deeper roots and a broader history than is ...
Globalization in Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry K. Gills
October 11, 2011
This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well beyond the current economic climate. Written by some of the world’s leading international ...
Alternative Globalizations: An Integrative Approach to Studying Dissident Knowledge in the Global Justice Movement
1st Edition
By S. A. Hamed Hosseini
October 05, 2011
Are the growing oppositions to neoliberal market globalism (especially in the aftermath of global economic meltdown) able to develop meaningful alternative ideologies? Is there any substantial alternative to the world capitalist system on the horizon? How would the ideologies and ideas address the ...
Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma
1st Edition
By Adam Lupel
August 25, 2011
We are living in a time of global transformation in which new political arrangements are being formed and old political arrangements now seem insufficient. In this context, alternative forms of authority are gaining strength, putting pressure on the normative currency of democratic politics; the ...