Rethinking Globalizations

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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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 July 1st 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Situating Global Resistance

   Between Discipline and Dissent

   Edited by Lara Montesinos Coleman, Karen Tucker

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development

   Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations

   Edited by Patrick Manning, Barry Gills

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   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...

   Published February 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Social Economy

    Working Alternatives in a Globalizing Era

    By Hasmet M. Uluorta

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    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...

    Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge