More Shopping OptionsThe 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.
Barry K. Gills is Senior Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Foreword: The Social Left and the Market System--John Kenneth Galbraith * Part I: Globalization and Resistance * Globalization and the Politics of Resistance--Barry K. Gills * Overturning "Globalization"--Louise Amoore, Richard Dodgson, Barry Gills, Paul Langley, Don Marshall & Iain Watson * Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalization--James Mittleman & Christine Chin * Resisting "Globalization-from-above" Through "Globalization-from-below"--Richard Falk * Globalization versus Community: Stakeholding, Communitarianism and the Challenge of Globalization--R.J. Barry Jones * Globalization and Democratic Provisionism--Robert Latham * Rearticulation of the State in a Globalizing World Economy--Jeffery A. Hart & Aseem Prakash * False Prophets and the Politics of the Retreat of the State--Ian R. Douglas * Part II: Strategies of Resistance * Social Movements, Local Places and Globalized Spaces--Peter Waterman * From National Resistance to International Labor Politics--Dimitris Stevis & Terry Boswell * Globalization and American Common Sense--Mark Rupert * Globalization and Emancipation--Jan Nederveen Pieterse * "Corporate Welfare" Campaigns in North America--Kenneth P. Thomas * Neoliberal Globalization, Social Welfare and Trade Unions in Southeast Asia--Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt * Globalization, Islam, and Resistance--Mustapha Kamal Pasha * Mexico, Neoliberal Restructuring and the EZLN--Adam David Morton * Globalization and Local Resistance--Cyril I. Obi * Structural Adjustment and the Response of Civil Society in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe--Sandra J. MacLean, Fahimul Quadir, & Timothy M. Shaw
