Synopses & Reviews
Rejecting economic determinism, this book sets out to establish the centrality of "the political" globalization. In a wide-ranging set of essays, distinguished contributors explore the new "strategies of resistance" emerging on local, national, regional, and global scales. The authors engage in critical rethinking of what practices now constitute viable political strategies in the world economy, focusing on popular responses to neoliberal globalization and the rearticulation of society, politics, and the state.
Synopsis
The paradox of "globalization" is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance. This book established the centrality of "the political" in our understandings of globalization and explores the new "strategies of resistance" emerging on local, national, regional, and global scales. Its impressively wide-ranging set of contributors engage in re-thinking what practices now constitute viable political strategies in the world economy.
Synopsis
List of Tables and Figures Foreword: The Social Left and the Market System; J.K.Galbraith Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE: THINKING THROUGH POLITICS Introduction: Globalization and the Politics of Resistance; B.K.Gills Overturning 'Globalization': Resisting Teleology, Reclaiming Politics; L.Amoore, R.Dodgson, B.K.Gills, P.Langley, D.Marshall & I.Watson Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalism; J.Mittleman & C.Chin Resisting 'Globalization-From-Above' Through 'Globalization-From-Below'; R.Falk Globalization versus Community: Stakeholding, Communitarianism and the Challenge of Globalization; R.J.B.Jones Globalization and Democratic Provisionism; R.Latham Rearticulation of the State in a Globalizing World Economy; J.A.Hart & A.Prakash False Prophets and the Politics of the Retreat of the State; I.R.Douglas PART II: STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE: FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL Social Movements, Local Places and Globalized Spaces: Implications for 'Globalization from Below'; P.Waterman From National Resistance to International Labor Politics; D.Stevis & T.Boswell Globalization and American Common Sense: Struggling to Make Sense of a Post-Hegemonic World; M.Rupert Globalization and Emancipation: From Local Empowerment to Global Reform; J.N.Pieterse 'Corporate Welfare' Campaigns in North America; K.P.Thomas Neoliberal Globalization, Social Welfare and Trade Unions in Southeast Asia; J.D.Schmidt Globalization, Islam, and Resistance; M.K.Pasha Mexico, Neoliberal Restructuring and the EZLN: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis; A.D.Morton Globalization and Local Resistance: The Case of Shell versus the Ogoni; C.I.Obi Structural Adjustment and the Response of Civil Society in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Analysis; S.J.MacLean, F.Quadir & T.M.Shaw Index
About the Author
Barry K. Gills is Senior Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Table of Contents
Foreword: The Social Left and the Market System—J.K. Galbraith *
Part I: Globalization and Resistance: Thinking Through Politics * Introduction: Globalization and the Politics of Resistance—B.K. Gills * Overturning 'Globalization': Resisting Teleology, Reclaiming Politics—L. Amoore, R. Dodgson, B.K. Gills, P. Langley, D. Marshall & I. Watson * Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalism—J. Mittleman & C. Chin * Resisting 'Globalization-From-Above' Through 'Globalization-From-Below'—R. Falk * Globalization versus Community: Stakeholding, Communitarianism and the Challenge of Globalization—R.J.B. Jones * Globalization and Democratic Provisionism—R. Latham * Rearticulation of the State in a Globalizing World Economy—J.A. Hart & A. Prakash * False Prophets and the Politics of the Retreat of the State; I.R. Douglas *
Part II: Strategies of Resistance: From the Local to the Global * Social Movements, Local Places and Globalized Spaces: Implications for 'Globalization from Below'—P. Waterman * From National Resistance to International Labor Politics—D. Stevis & T. Boswell * Globalization and American Common Sense: Struggling to Make Sense of a Post-Hegemonic World—M. Rupert * Globalization and Emancipation: From Local Empowerment to Global Reform—J.N. Pieterse * 'Corporate Welfare' Campaigns in North America—K.P. Thomas * Neoliberal Globalization, Social Welfare and Trade Unions in Southeast Asia—J.D. Schmidt * Globalization, Islam, and Resistance—M.K. Pasha * Mexico, Neoliberal Restructuring and the EZLN: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis—A.D. Morton * Globalization and Local Resistance: The Case of Shell versus the Ogoni—C.I. Obi * Structural Adjustment and the Response of Civil Society in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Analysis—S.J. MacLean, F. Quadir & T.M. Shaw