Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics

ISBN-13: 9781138951150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 158 str.

James Goodman; Dr Jonathan Marshall

Opis

The book investigates global crises at the nexus between social movements and crisis management. It produces grounded accounts of movement and management in today’s state of permanent crisis, while opening up new theoretical perspectives on current social life.

This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Crisis, Movement and Management in Contemporary Globalisations  James Goodman and Jonathan Paul Marshall  Section 1 - Management  2. The Hydra Paradox: Global Disaster Management in a World of Crises  Bob Hodge  3. Communication Failure and the Financial Crisis  Jonathan Paul Marshall  4. The Rigidity Trap in Global Resilience: Neoliberalisation Through Principles, Standards, and Benchmarks  Peter Rogers  5. ‘Who is Grace?’: Affect, Work, and Gender in Bangalore Call Centres  Devleena Ghosh  6. The ‘Green Economy’: Class Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony  James Goodman and Ariel Salleh  Section 2 - Movement  7. Occupy Cosmopolitanism: Ideological Transversalization in the Age of Global Economic Uncertainties  S. A. Hamed Hosseini  8. Crisis Is Where We Live: Environmental Justice for the Anthropocene  Donna Houston  9. Global Justice Organising in Australia: Crisis and Realignment after 9/11  Elizabeth Humphrys  10. Reinscribing the City: Art, Occupation and Citizen Journalism in Hong Kong  Francesca da Rimini  11. Religious Globalisms in the Post-Secular Age  Erin K. Wilson and Manfred B. Steger

O autorze

James Goodman researches social movements and globalization with a focus on global justice and climate change. He is coauthor of Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy (Sage 2013) Disorder and the Disinformation Society, and Climate Upsurge: An Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics (both Routledge 2013). Jonathan Paul Marshall is an anthropologist who primarily focuses on issues of technology, society and disorder. He is author of Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication and Control (Peter Lang) and co-author of Disorder and the Disinformation Society (Routledge 2013).