Book Series

Rethinking Globalizations

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Dying Empire

U.S. Imperialism and Global Resistance

By Francis Shor

By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictions at home.…

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November 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77823-7 (Routledge)

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Alternative Globalizations

An Integrative Approach to Studying Dissident Knowledge in the Global Justice Movement

By S. A. Hamed Hosseini

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…

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November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49476-2 (Routledge)

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Globalization, Knowledge and Labour

Education for solidarity within spaces of resistance

Edited by Mario Novelli, Anibel Ferus-Comelo

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…

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November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43663-2 (Routledge)

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Globalization and Popular Sovereignty

Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma

By Adam Lupel

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…

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August 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77744-5 (Routledge)

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Limits to Globalization

North-South Divergence

By William R. Thompson, Rafael Reuveny

In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and…

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July 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77673-8 (Routledge)

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Cultures of Globalization

Coherence, Hybridity, Contestation

Edited by Kevin Archer, M. Martin Bosman, M. Mark Amen, Ella Schmidt

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…

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February 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49568-4 (Routledge)

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The Global Politics of Globalization

"Empire" vs "Cosmopolis"

Edited by Barry K. Gills

Are we moving inexorably towards a ‘new empire’ or is global civil society transforming global politics into a ‘new cosmopolis’?

In The Global Politics of Globalization,…

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February 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49503-5 (Routledge)

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Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice

Edited by Barry K. Gills

This book brings together a set of distinguished academics and activists to analyze, critique, and debate the global politics of poverty and justice and the…

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February 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49569-1 (Routledge)

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Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights

The Role of Multilateral Organisations

By Desmond McNeill, Asunción Lera StClair

Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice…

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January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44594-8 (Routledge)

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The Social Economy

Working Alternatives in a Globalizing Era

By Hasmet M. Uluorta

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,…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77593-9 (Routledge)

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Edited by: Barry Gills, University of Newcastle, UK

This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalization and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalization, 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.

Forthcoming Titles:

The World Trade Organisation and Protest Movements: Altering World Order?
By William B. Paterson
To be published February 1st 2010

Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity
Edited by Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg
To be published June 30th 2010

Power and Global Activism
Edited by Thomas Olesen
To be published October 10th 2010

Mythology, Globalization and World Order: Power, and Deception in the Global Political Economy
By Mark Bailey
To be published November 1st 2010