ISBN:
0203154533
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0415689023
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0415689031
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9780203154533
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9780415689021
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9780415689038
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9781136578427
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 191 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Rethinking Globalizations
Parallel Title:
Print version A History of World Order and Resistance
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
This book combines theory with history to look into a dozen episodes of struggle over the concrete and situated terms of world ordering, and it finds reasons to think that the contemporary 'movement of movements' against neo-liberal globalization has deeper roots and a broader history than is usually recognized. Informed by case studies from the US, the UK, France, South Africa, Algeria, the Philippines and Jamaica, A History of World Order and Resistance examines how men and women are sometimes subjectified by world ordering, and how they sometimes make themselves true subjects of their own g
Description / Table of Contents:
A HISTORY OF WORLD ORDER AND RESISTANCE The making and unmaking of global subjects; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; Foreword by Jai Sen; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'We' has been there before; Where is everywhere? The world economy as terrains of struggle; Who might 'We' be in the world economy?; Conclusion; Outline; 1 Before us: unrelational, immaterial, notions of global power and counter-power; Transnational elites making a world in their image; Global and immanent 'We'; Conclusion; 2 Towards a proper theory of global presence: three concepts to begin understanding who 'We' is
Description / Table of Contents:
ConceptsSocial and economic formation; Articulation; Hegemony; Global subjects and modes of relation to the world economy; Conclusion; 3 Global neighbourhoods and plantations: the long nineteenth century between Toussaint L'Ouverture and the First World War; In the nineteenth century: two modes of relation to the world economy; Creative dislocation; Dialectics of presence; Conclusion; 4 Sites unseen and whole countries: from the end of the First World War to the crisis of the Bretton Woods world order; In the twentieth century: two modes or relations to the world economy; Creative dislocation
Description / Table of Contents:
Dialectics of presenceConclusion; 5 Everywhere?: the present juncture; In the age of neo-liberal globalization, two modes of relation to the world economy; Creative dislocation; Dialectics of presence; Conclusion; Conclusion: what is 'We' to do?; The rise of political reasonableness; The impolitics of presence; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
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