Rethinking Globalizations

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1. Mythology, Globalization and World Order

   Power, and Deception in the Global Political Economy

   By Mark Bailey

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This book investigates the role that myth plays in constructing and legitimating forms of world order. Using a combination of political philosophy, anthropology, Jungian depth psychology, and IPE approaches, the book demonstrates why theorisation of the role of myth within the discourses of...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance

   A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities

   By Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Edges of Global Justice

   The World Social Forum and Its 'Others'

   By Janet M. Conway

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes

   Edited by Manfred Steger, Anne McNevin

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Arab Revolutions and World Transformations

   Edited by Anna Agathangelou, Nevzat Soguk

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Global Movement

   Edited by Ruth Reitan

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Global Governance and NGO Participation

   Shaping the information society in the United Nations

   By Charlotte Dany

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. China's Development

   Capitalism and Empire

   By Michel Aglietta, Guo Bai

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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....

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Global South to the Rescue

   Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

   Edited by Paul Amar

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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...

   Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order

    Edited by Ronaldo Munck, Carl Schierup, Raúl Wise

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    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...

    Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge