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Global Slump

Author : David McNally
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604860650
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Global Slump written by David McNally and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Slump analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. It argues that—far from having ended—the crisis has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. In developing an account of the crisis as rooted in fundamental features of capitalism, Global Slump challenges the view that its source lies in financial deregulation. The book locates the recent meltdown in the intense economic restructuring that marked the recessions of the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Through this lens, it highlights the emergence of new patterns of world inequality and new centers of accumulation, particularly in East Asia, and the profound economic instabilities these produced. Global Slump offers an original account of the “financialization” of the world economy during this period, and explores the intricate connections between international financial markets and new forms of debt and dispossession, particularly in the Global South. Analyzing the massive intervention of the world’s central banks to stave off another Great Depression, Global Slump shows that, while averting a complete meltdown, this intervention also laid the basis for recurring crises for poor and working class people: job loss, increased poverty and inequality, and deep cuts to social programs. The book takes a global view of these processes, exposing the damage inflicted on countries in the Global South, as well as the intensification of racism and attacks on migrant workers. At the same time, Global Slump also traces new patterns of social and political resistance—from housing activism and education struggles, to mass strikes and protests in Martinique, Guadeloupe, France and Puerto Rico—as indicators of the potential for building anti-capitalist opposition to the damage that neoliberal capitalism is inflicting on the lives of millions.

Capitalist Globalization

Author : Martin Hart-Landsberg
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673520
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Capitalist Globalization written by Martin Hart-Landsberg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Globalization,” surely one of the most used and abused buzzwords of recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typically considered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of market forces across the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, business leaders, and mainstream journalists view globalization as the natural result of economic development, and a beneficial one at that. But, as noted economist Martin Hart-Landsberg argues, this perception does not match the reality of globalization. The rise of transnational corporations and their global production chains was the result of intentional and political acts, decisions made at the highest levels of power. Their aim – to increase profits by seeking the cheapest sources of labor and raw materials – was facilitated through policy-making at the national and international levels, and was largely successful. But workers in every nation have paid the costs, in the form of increased inequality and poverty, the destruction of social welfare provisions and labor unions, and an erratic global economy prone to bubbles, busts, and crises. This book examines the historical record of globalization and restores agency to the capitalists, policy-makers, and politicians who worked to craft a regime of world-wide exploitation. It demolishes their neoliberal ideology – already on shaky ground after the 2008 financial crisis – and picks apart the record of trade agreements like NAFTA and institutions like the WTO. But, crucially, Hart- Landsberg also discusses alternatives to capitalist globalization, looking to examples such as South America’s Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) for clues on how to build an international economy based on solidarity, social development, and shared prosperity.

Globalization and Resistance

Author : Jackie Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742519909
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Resistance written by Jackie Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smith and Johnston bring together essays that assess the implications of globalization of political mobilization and explore the way that social movement actors are able to affect change in global political processes. Most of the material focuses on how global forces impact particular organizations or campaigns, but two chapters explore the building of transnational networks by environmental and other groups. Specific topics include Irish transnational social movements, the shaping of protected area systems in less developed countries, the anti-dam movement in Brazil, and the U.S.-Central American peace movement." -- BookNews.

Globalizing Resistance against War

Author : Tiina Seppälä
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136330801
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Resistance against War written by Tiina Seppälä and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political revival of the anti-war movement after 9/11 launched a controversial debate on global resistance. Through detailed study of the anti-war movement in Britain, this book critically evaluates the theoretical debate from the perspective of ‘critical theory in political practice’. This book presents new arguments and theoretical framework to consider globalized resistance to war. In an attempt to develop the theoretical debate further, this book analyses two strands of current thought; liberal cosmopolitanism which considers the movement a consensual force of opposition against war in the form of global civil society, and radical poststructuralism which speaks of the Multitude’s ‘war against war’.. Including detailed empirical case study of four anti-war organizations; the Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Globalise Resistance and War Resisters’ International, the author illustrates the limitations of the abstract nature of current theorizing and highlights the need for theory to be more engaged with political practice. While revealing tensions and conflicts within the new anti-war movement, the study not only underlines the need to critically analyse the dominant theoretical discourses but also suggests that the movement would benefit from a more open discussion about the complex relationship between unity and diversity. Globalizing Resistance against War is invaluable reading for students and scholars of International Sociology, International Relations, War and Peace Studies, International Theory and Political Theory.

Resistance in an Amazonian Community

Author : Lawrence Ziegler-Otero
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845453060
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Resistance in an Amazonian Community written by Lawrence Ziegler-Otero and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century. In 1991, they formed a political organization as a direct response to the growing threat to Huaorani territory posed by oil exploitation, colonization, and other pressures. The author explores the structures and practices of the organization, as well as the contradictions created by the imposition of an alien and hierarchical organizational form on a traditionally egalitarian society. This study has broad implications for those who work toward "cultural survival" or try to "save the rainforest."

There Is An Alternative

Author : Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book There Is An Alternative written by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen and published by . This book was released on 2001-12-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thought-provoking collection of essays by radical thinkers. It moves beyond criticism of current globalisation trends, and offers theoretical and practical alternatives for our world.

Crip Times

Author : Robert McRuer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147980875X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Crip Times written by Robert McRuer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or “crip times.” Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers how transnational queer disability theory and culture—activism, blogs, art, photography, literature, and performance—provide important and generative sites for both contesting austerity politics and imagining alternatives. The book engages various cultural flashpoints, including the spectacle surrounding the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; the murder trial of South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius; the photography of Brazilian artist Livia Radwanski which documents the gentrification of Colonia Roma in Mexico City; the defiance of Chilean students demanding a free and accessible education for all; the sculpture and performance of UK artist Liz Crow; and the problematic rhetoric of “aspiration” dependent upon both able-bodied and disabled figurations that emerged in Thatcher’s England. Crip Times asserts that disabled people themselves are demanding that disability be central to our understanding of political economy and uneven development and suggests that, in some locations, their demand for disability justice is starting to register. Ultimately, McRuer argues that a politics of austerity will always generate the compulsion to fortify borders and to separate a narrowly defined “us” in need of protection from “them.”

The Globalization Syndrome

Author : James H. Mittelman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823692
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Globalization Syndrome written by James H. Mittelman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here James Mittelman explains the systemic dynamics and myriad consequences of globalization, focusing on the interplay between globalizing market forces, in some instances guided by the state, and the needs of society. Mittelman finds that globalization is hardly a unified phenomenon but rather a syndrome of processes and activities: a set of ideas and a policy framework. More specifically, globalization is propelled by a changing division of labor and power, manifested in a new regionalism, and challenged by fledgling resistance movements. The author argues that a more complete understanding of globalization requires an appreciation of its cultural dimensions. From this perspective, he considers the voices of those affected by this trend, including those who resist it and particularly those who are hurt by it. The Globalization Syndrome is among the first books to present a holistic and multilevel analysis of globalization, connecting the economic to the political and cultural, joining agents and multiple structures, and interrelating different local, regional, and global arenas. Mittelman's findings are drawn mainly from the non-Western worlds. He provides a cross-regional analysis of Eastern Asia, an epicenter of globalization, and Southern Africa, a key node in the most marginalized continent. The evidence shows that while offering many benefits to some, globalization has become an uneasy correlation of deep tensions, giving rise to a range of alternative scenarios.

Resistance, Space and Political Identities

Author : David Featherstone
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405158085
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Resistance, Space and Political Identities written by David Featherstone and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-09-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity. Explores counter-global struggles in both the past and present—including both the 18th-century Atlantic world and contemporary forms of resistance Examines the productive geographies of contestation Foregrounds the solidarities and geographies of connection between different place-based struggles and argues that such solidarities are essential to produce more plural forms of globalization

Indigenous Peoples and Globalization

Author : Thomas D. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317257618
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Peoples and Globalization written by Thomas D. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues native peoples face intensify with globalization. Through case studies from around the world, Hall and Fenelon demonstrate how indigenous peoples? movements can only be understood by linking highly localized processes with larger global and historical forces. The authors show that indigenous peoples have been resisting and adapting to encounters with states for millennia. Unlike other antiglobalization activists, indigenous peoples primarily seek autonomy and the right to determine their own processes of adaptation and change, especially in relationship to their origin lands and community. The authors link their analyses to current understandings of the evolution of globalization.

Globalization and the Dilemmas of the State in the South

Author : F. Adams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230372600
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and the Dilemmas of the State in the South written by F. Adams and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization poses a formidable dilemma for the third-world state. While there are compelling external pressures to liberalize domestic economies, market-oriented reforms threaten the economic well-being of various societal groups. Popular resistance to these reforms has been strong throughout the developing world. This volume examines the political strategies employed by third world governments to maintain programs in the face of domestic opposition.

Globalization and Third World Women

Author : Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317126947
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Third World Women written by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting the notion of 'third world' as a political as well as a geographical category, this volume analyzes marginalized women's experiences of globalization. It unravels the intersections of race, culture, ethnicity, nationality and class which have shaped the position of these women in the global political economy, their cultural and their national history. In addition to a thematically structured and highly informative investigation, the authors offer an exploration of the policy implications which are commonly neglected in mainstream literature. The result is a must have volume for sociological academics, social policy experts and professionals working within non-governmental organizations.

Iron Will

Author : Markus Kroger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472902393
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Iron Will written by Markus Kroger and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iron Will lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. Markus Kröger addresses resistance strategies to extractivism and tracks their success, or lack thereof, through a comparison of peaceful and armed resource conflicts, explaining how different means of resistance arise. Using the distinctly different contexts and political systems of Brazil and India highlights the importance of local context for resistance. For example, if there is an armed conflict at a planned mining site, how does this influence the possibility to use peaceful resistance strategies? To answer such questions, Kröger assesses the inter-relations of contentious, electoral, institutional, judicial, and private politics that surround conflicts and interactions, offering a new theoretical framework of “investment politics” that can be applied generally by scholars and students of social movements, environmental studies, and political economy, and even more broadly in Social Scientific and Environmental Policy research. By drawing on a detailed field research and other sources, this book explains precisely which resistance strategies are able to influence both political and economic outcomes. Kröger expands the focus of traditionally Latin American extractivism research to other contexts such as India and the growing extractivist movement in the Global North. In addition, as the book is a multi-sited political ethnography, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, geographers, and others using field research among other methods to understand globalization and global political interactions. It is the most comprehensive book on the political economy and ecology of iron ore and steel. This is astonishing, given the fact that iron ore is the second-most important commodity in the world after oil.

Spaces of Capital/spaces of Resistance

Author : Chris Hesketh
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820352845
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Capital/spaces of Resistance written by Chris Hesketh and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Geographical politics and the politics of geography -- Latin America and the production of the global economy -- From passive revolution to silent revolution: the politics of state, space, and class formation in modern Mexico -- The changing state of resistance: defending place and producing space in Oaxaca -- The clash of spatializations: class power and the production of Chiapas -- Conclusion

Globalizing Resistance

Author : Francois Polet
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Resistance written by Francois Polet and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively account of how people power has shaped British history -- from Peterloo to the Poll tax and beyond.

Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance

Author : Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136644636
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance written by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines international labour export of Filipino migrant workers and forms of resistance to globalization.

Globalization and Postcolonialism

Author : Sankaran Krishna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780742554689
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Postcolonialism written by Sankaran Krishna and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization has become a widely used buzzword, yet popular discussions often miss its deeper realities. This book offers the first clear explanation of the impact of colonialist legacies in a globalized era defined by the "War on Terror." Sankaran Krishna explores the history of the relationship between Western dominance and the forms of resistance that have emerged to challenge it. He argues that we live on an interrelated globe, that history matters a great deal in constructing contemporary realities, and that others create narratives about the world based on their experiences just as we do based on ours. Presenting a lucid exploration of the intertwined histories of both globalization and postcolonialism, this book uses compelling real-world examples to make sense of this crucial relationship.