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The World Social Forum (WSF) was conceived as a platform for exchange of experiences and interlinking effective action. In this book, leading intellectual-activists from four continents take stock of the WSF-experience so far and suggest new paths for collaboration between all who build other possible worlds.
This book investigates the interplay of internal and external constraints, challenges and possibilities regarding foreign policy in India.It is the first attempt to systematically analyse and focus on the different actors and institutions in the domestic and international contexts who impose and push for various directions in India's foreign policy. Rather than focusing on any one particular theme, the book explores the myriad aspects of foreign policymaking and the close interface between the domestic and external aspects in Indian policymaking. In turn, this relates to the structural issues shaping and reshaping the Asian regional dynamics and India's connectivity within a globalized world.This book will be of great interest to postgraduate students; scholars of Asian Studies, development, and political science and international relations; and all those involved in policy - especially foreign policy - within India and South Asia. It will also be useful for people working in professional branches of consultancy and the private sector dealing with India and with South Asia in general.
This cutting-edge volume brings together a diverse roster of scholars to shed light on the reconfiguration of twenty-first century Latin American regionalism. Offering a wider portrait of regionalism from 'above' and 'below', it offers the reader an incisive exploration on the ever-changing landscape of regional cooperation in Latin America.
The Rise of Green Extractivism tackles the understudied interconnections between extractivism and climate-smart policies and their implications for rural livelihoods, both theoretically and empirically.
Scholar-activists involved in the broader Anti-/Alter-Globalization movement share critical reflections on transnational labor organizing, the World Social Forum, economic justice, anti-war, climate activism, feminism, indigenous struggles, post-autonomism, post-anarchism, and de-colonial movements. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
The chapters in this collection explore different forms of radical political subjectivity. Together, they look to uncover the ways in which contemporary subjects are constituted within and work to unsettle dominant relations of power. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
This book analyses the progress and failures of development against the backdrop of an increasingly globalised and neoliberal world economy. Eminent Development experts examine various critical factors of the development process, including the financial crisis of 2008, development theory, the regional dynamics of globalization, and the role of technology transfer and information.
This book considers the increasing importance of both labour migration and precarious work in our global world. It goes on to ask whether such migrants may become a key component in the social movement emerging to counter globalisation. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
This edited set of essays brings together insight and analysis on Brexit from some of the best known names in political economy and international political economy. It is set to become a standard point of reference on this era defining event. The chapters in this book originally published as a special issue in Globalizations.
This book, originally published as a spcial issue of Globalization, explores the obstacles to as well as possibilities for transnational labour solidarity over free trade agreements.
This book explores the politics of legitimacy and legitimation of global governance organizations in the areas of sustainable development, health, labour standards and humanitarian relief. It was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
This volume offers a synthetic approach to understanding contemporary globalization and the attendant effects that political economic interdependence have on social life world wide. It explores a range of phenomena from responses to the global economic crisis, the emergence of counterhegemonic class projects from below, to ideological and symbol
This edited volume proposes new directions to deepen and even transform the research agenda on land struggles and agro-industrial restructuring around the world.
Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of "capital," departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory.
In Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality.
This volume takes up the idea of `multiplicity¿ as a new common ground for international theory to reflect on the implications of societal multiplicity for areas as diverse as nationalism, ecology, architecture, monetary systems, cosmology and the history of political ideas.
This book charts the way towards a better, repurposed globalization, which it calls `reglobalization¿, and shows how this can be built, incrementally but realistically, via reforms to the partial and fragile existing structures of global governance.
Rising Powers, People Rising is a pathbreaking volume in which leading international scholars discuss the emerging political economy of development in the BRICS countries centred on neo-liberalization, precarity, and popular struggles.
This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin¿s call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples.
In what are generally understood as unsettled times, this book explores the possibility and desirability of bringing integrated theory back into globalization research.
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