With the further sustainability of the neoliberal political and economic world order in question, what will be the role of migration in terms of work patterns and what modalities of political citizenship will develop?
With the further sustainability of the neoliberal political and economic world order in question, what will be the role of migration in terms of work ...
This book combines theory with history to look into a dozen episodes of struggle over the concrete and situated terms of world ordering, and it finds reasons to think that the contemporary 'movement of movements' against neo-liberal globalization has deeper roots and a broader history than is usually recognized. Informed by case studies from the US, the UK, France, South Africa, Algeria, the Philippines and Jamaica, A History of World Order and Resistance examines how men and women are sometimes subjectified by world ordering, and how they sometimes make themselves true subjects of their own...
This book combines theory with history to look into a dozen episodes of struggle over the concrete and situated terms of world ordering, and it finds ...
This book explores how the World Social Forum (WSF) has developed in response to the current period of profound crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity. The WSF has been thrown up by social forces as a laboratory of practices for other possible worlds; it is at a leading edge of the transition, where other possible futures are being imagined and constructed, but it is also firmly rooted in the order that is passing.
Based on ten years of fieldwork on three continents, this book examines social movements as knowledge producers. It pays attention to specific...
This book explores how the World Social Forum (WSF) has developed in response to the current period of profound crisis and transition in the histor...
Focusing on sustainability, this book explores the future of China in light of the successful reforms undertaken in the last 30 years. It combines Chinese economic history and macroeconomic theory in order to show how economic transformations and institutional changes are intertwined in developing capitalism.
Focusing on sustainability, this book explores the future of China in light of the successful reforms undertaken in the last 30 years. It combines Chi...
This text explores the limits of NGO influence and the conditions that constrain NGOs when they participate in international negotiations. Focusing on the UN World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS) the author conceptualizes structural power mechanisms that shape global ICT governance.
This text explores the limits of NGO influence and the conditions that constrain NGOs when they participate in international negotiations. Focusing on...
This volume takes a critical look at the recent uprisings unleashed in the Middle East and North Africa following the tragic self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010.
This volume takes a critical look at the recent uprisings unleashed in the Middle East and North Africa following the tragic self-immolation of Tunisi...
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 also highlights ways in which activists are reaching beyond their geographical and issue boundaries to link with others in struggle, to construct a broader global movement of the left, and beyond.
Critical research and theorizing on the anti- or alter-globalization movement has exploded over the last two decades. This volume provides a platform ...
The looming depletion of non-renewable resources has increased the global land grab in the past decade. So far however, the question of how and when people can influence economic outcomes has received little attention in the study of social movements.
Based on in-depth ethnographic field research since 2003 in the industrial forestry expansion frontiers in Brazil and elsewhere in the global South, this book presents a novel theory to explain how the interaction between resistance, companies and the state determines investment outcomes. The promotion of contentious agency by organizing...
The looming depletion of non-renewable resources has increased the global land grab in the past decade. So far however, the question of how and whe...
Land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, given its historical precedents in the eras of imperialism. However, the character, scale, pace, orientation and key drivers of the recent wave of land grabs is a distinct historical event closely tied to the changing dynamics of the global agri-food, feed and fuel complex.
Land grabbing is facilitated by ever greater flows of capital, goods, and ideas across borders, and these flows occur through axes of power that are far more polycentric than the North-South imperialist tradition. Land grabs occur in the context of changes in the...
Land grabbing per se is not a new phenomenon, given its historical precedents in the eras of imperialism. However, the character, scale, pace, orie...
