People Power in an Era of Global Crisis: Rebellion, Resistance and Liberation

ISBN-13: 9780415500098 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 216 str.

Barry Gills; Kevin Gray

Opis

A quarter of a century has now passed since the historic popular uprising that led to the overthrow of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. The mass movement known as the "People Power Revolution" was not only pivotal to the democratic transition within the Philippines, but it also became an inspiration for subsequent mass movements leading to further democratic transitions throughout the Third World and in the former Communist bloc in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. However, the neoliberal economic policies subsequently pursued by newly democratic governments throughout the Third World led all but the most celebratory observers to note the constrained and limited nature of these formal political transitions. This volume poses the question of the extent to which people power has been able to play an active role resisting neoliberalism and deepen substantive democracy and social justice. Through a series of case studies of the regions and individual countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, the contributions in the volume provide a new set of original and in-depth critical assessments of the nature of the longer-term impact of the democratic transitions commencing in the 1980s and continuing until the present, and questioning their impact and potential influence on human dignity, freedom, justice, and self-determination, and thus opening new avenues of enquiry into the future of democracy.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Spis treści

Preface: People Power is Alive and Well  Joel Rocamora  1. Introduction: People Power in the Era of Global Crisis: rebellion, resistance, and liberation  Barry K Gills and Kevin Gray  2. (Re)constructing Popular Power in Our America: Venezuela and the regionalisation of ‘revolutionary democracy’ in the ALBA–TCP space  Thomas Muhr  3. South African People Power since the mid-1980s: two steps forward, one back  Patrick Bond  4. Democracy and People Power in Africa: still searching for the ‘political kingdom’  Fantu Cheru  5. The Dilemmas of Korea’s New Democracy in an Age of Neoliberal Globalisation  Kwang-Yeong Shin  6. Competing Ideologies of Political Representation in Southeast Asia  Garry Rodan  7. Democracy@internet.org Revisited: analysing the socio-political impact of the internet and new social media in East Asia  Jason Abbott  8. Opposing Neoliberalism? Poland’s renewed populism and post-communist transition  Stuart Shields  9. People’s power and the struggle for social democracy in Latin America, Henry Veltmeyer

O autorze

Barry Gills is Professor of Global Politics at Newcastle University, UK His recent works include: Globalization in Crisis; Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development (co-edited with Patrick Manning); The Global Politics of Globalization: ‘Empire’ vs. ‘Cosmopolis’; Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice; Globalization and Global History (Co-edited with William R. Thompson); and The Globalization of Environmental Crisis (co-edited with Jan Oosthoek)He is Editor of Routledge journal Globalizations and Rethinking Globalizations book series, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. Kevin Gray is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK. He is author of Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation (London: Routledge, 2008) and a number of scholarly articles on the political economy of East Asia. He is Assistant Editor of the journal Globalizations and director of the Research Network on Global Governance and the Emerging Global South (SouthGovNet), funded by the Leverhulme Trust.