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Rethinking Globalizations


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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.

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Labour Conflicts in the Global South

Labour Conflicts in the Global South

1st Edition

Edited By Andreas Bieler, Jörg Nowak
January 29, 2024

Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth ...

Re-Globalization New Frontiers of Political, Economic, and Social Globalization

Re-Globalization: New Frontiers of Political, Economic, and Social Globalization

1st Edition

Edited By Roland Benedikter, Mirjam Gruber, Ingrid Kofler
January 29, 2024

Re-Globalization examines the changing face of globalization, with political, economic, and social balances in flux, and tensions increasing in many parts of the globe. This book discusses and problematizes the current transition phase of globalization in response to issues such as inequalities, ...

Time, Climate Change, Global Racial Capitalism and Decolonial Planetary Ecologies

Time, Climate Change, Global Racial Capitalism and Decolonial Planetary Ecologies

1st Edition

Edited By Anna M. Agathangelou, Kyle D. Killian
January 29, 2024

This book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order to spark our imagination and inspire us to re-think the planetary, ecology, and otherwise. It presents debates that interrogate and elucidate the anxieties of the known and the unknown of this world and the planetary ...

Capital Redefined A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life

Capital Redefined: A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life

1st Edition

By S. A. Hamed Hosseini, Barry K. Gills
October 12, 2023

Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of “capital,” departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory. They argue ...

Beyond the Global Land Grab New Directions for Research on Land Struggles and Global Agrarian Change

Beyond the Global Land Grab: New Directions for Research on Land Struggles and Global Agrarian Change

1st Edition

Edited By Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Juan Liu, Ben M. McKay
September 25, 2023

The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the "global land grab", and sparked vibrant debates among social movements, NGOs, international development ...

Challenging Inequality in South Africa Transitional Compasses

Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses

1st Edition

Edited By Michelle Williams, Vishwas Satgar
September 25, 2023

In Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality. Through concrete empirical examples of movements, workers’ struggles, ...

Multiplicity A New Common Ground for International Relations?

Multiplicity: A New Common Ground for International Relations?

1st Edition

Edited By Justin Rosenberg, Milja Kurki
September 25, 2023

This volume takes up the idea of ‘multiplicity’ as a new common ground for international theory, bringing together 10 scholars to reflect on the implications of societal multiplicity for areas as diverse as nationalism, ecology, architecture, monetary systems, cosmology and the history of political...

Reglobalization

Reglobalization

1st Edition

Edited By Matthew Louis Bishop, Anthony Payne
September 25, 2023

This book charts the way towards a better, repurposed globalization, which it calls ‘reglobalization’, and shows how this can be built, incrementally but realistically, via reforms to the partial and fragile existing structures of global governance. In making this argument, the book firmly rejects ...

Rising Powers, People Rising Neoliberalization and its Discontents in the BRICS Countries

Rising Powers, People Rising: Neoliberalization and its Discontents in the BRICS Countries

1st Edition

Edited By Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Karl von Holdt
September 25, 2023

Rising Powers, People Rising is a pathbreaking volume in which leading international scholars discuss the emerging political economy of development in the BRICS countries centred on neo-liberalization, precarity, and popular struggles. The rise of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China,...

Unity on the Global Left Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International

Unity on the Global Left: Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International

1st Edition

Edited By Barry K. Gills, Christopher Chase-Dunn
September 25, 2023

This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin’s call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples. Amin’s proposal is applauded, criticized and reformulated by these scholar-activists who are all proponents of ways ...

Why Globalization Matters Engaging with Theory

Why Globalization Matters: Engaging with Theory

1st Edition

Edited By Barrie Axford
September 25, 2023

In what are generally understood as unsettled times, this book explores the possibility and desirability of bringing integrated theory back into globalization research. While there can hardly be a single and all-encompassing ‘grand theory’ of globalization-in-itself, is there scope for the ...

Extractivisms, Existences and Extinctions Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation

Extractivisms, Existences and Extinctions: Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation

1st Edition

By Markus Kröger
May 31, 2023

This book explores the existential redistributions that extractivist frontiers create, going beyond existing studies by bringing into the English-language discussion much of the wisdom from Latin American rural and forest communities’ understandings of extractivist phenomena, and the destruction ...

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