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This edited volume proposes new directions to deepen and even transform the research agenda on land struggles and agro-industrial restructuring around the world.

Re-Globalization examines the changing face of globalization, with political, economic, and social balances in flux, and tensions increasing in many parts of the globe.

Revisiting the magnetic poles of Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek on the utopian springs of political economy, this book seeks to provide a compass for questioning the market economy of the twenty-first century.

This volume evaluates how the new forms of labour mobilisation witnessed in the past ten years responded to the predominance of the informality-precarity complex of industrial relations and what conclusions can be drawn for potentially successful strategies against exploitation in the future.

This book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order to spark our imagination and re-think a planetary, and ecology, otherwise.

This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.Thirty years have passed since the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the beginning of policy on climate change. Thirty wasted years. To most politicians, long-term collective interest has been denominated in meaningless units of time, a never and forever that has continually delayed action. From complacency has come potential disaster, and we are now living in a time of climate emergency and ecological breakdown. The next decade is a pivotal period requiring fundamental change. But numerous impediments remain. Continual material, energy and economic growth on a planetary scale are manifestly impossible, and yet economic theory takes these as a given and political leadership and policy seem unwilling to accept brute reality. Instead, they offer a series of implausible commitments and pledges rooted in technofixes, without addressing the fundamental drivers of the problems the world faces.The edited volume explores the issues and offers a variety of ways to think through the problems at hand, from postgrowth, degrowth and social ecological economics to policy assemblage and transversalism.The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Globalizations.

Globalizations from Below uses a Constructivist International Relations approach that emphasizes the centrality of normative power to analyze and compare the four globalizations 'from below.'These are: (1) the counter-hegemonic globalization represented by the 'movement of movements' of alter-globalization transnational social activists, who try to put an end to the Neoliberal nature of the Western-centered globalization 'from above'; (2) the non-hegemonic globalization enacted by 'ant traders' that are part of the transnational informal economy; (3) the partially similar Chinese-centered globalization, whose entrepreneurial migrants are strongly influenced and instrumentalized by the Chinese state; and (4) the first wave globalization 'from below' that paralleled (and outlived) the 1870-1914 globalization 'from above.' This book identifies their common features and uses them to define the concept of globalization 'from below' as a set of socio-economic or socio-political processes that involve large transnational flows of people, goods, and/or ideas characterized at least in part by informality. They are enacted by entrepreneurial or activistic individuals who either take advantage of the normative power of the hegemon at the origin of an international order and an associated globalization 'from above,' or - explicitly or implicitly - transgress, contest, and try to redefine dominant economic, legal, political, and socio-cultural norms, thus challenging the existing international order and globalization 'from above.' By constructing a unified theoretical framework, this book attempts to open a new field of interdisciplinary research that should take globalizations 'from below' out of their current scholarly marginality.This is one of the first scholarly works to collectively present more than one globalization 'from below,' and will be of great interest to students, scholars, and researchers of International Relations, International Political Economy, Development Studies, Economic History, Anthropology, Diaspora Studies, and Chinese Studies.

This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, and presents a radical critique of the current state of the Western left which puts discourse above class interest and politics of diversity above politics of social change.

Global Political Leadership explores contemporary shifts in leadership, and the related leadership crisis, in the global world.

This volume explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the sustainability of the present global political and economic system and the extent to which that system may as a result be undergoing transformation.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

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 edited volume proposes new directions to deepen and even transform the research agenda on land struggles and agro-industrial restructuring around the world.