1st Edition

Globalization Development and Social Justice A propositional political approach

By Ann El Khoury Copyright 2015
414 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

414 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 globalization is not only possible, but already exists. It demonstrates that there are multiple pathways... Read more

1. Introduction: Infraglobalization 2. Corporatist Globalisation: A World in Its Own Image  3. Infraglobalisation and Sub-Rosa Geographies: From Another World Is Possible To Many Other Worlds Already Exist  4. Alternative Ways of Knowing: Framing Globalisation  5. Paradox in Paradise: Participatory Development and the Social Economy in Kerala  6. A Cooperative Town: Community Development in Australia  7. Conclusion

Biography

Ann El Khoury is a Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of Technology (UTS), Sydney, Australia.

‘This pioneering and insightful book resources a new style of political imagination, practices of politics and a politics of hopefulness’

Richard Le Heron, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

'Ann El Khoury’s work lays out a cogent philosophical platform for a more diverse, less deterministic, and scalar-sensitive means for analysing global economic and social change, and, in doing so, gives voice to those who have for too long been forced to the margins of analysis and debate'.

Neil Argent, Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England , Armidale, Australia