Books in the Rethinking Globalizations series

The new wave of land grabbing that followed the recent global food crisis has prompted considerable debate about its social, environmental and political consequences. This volume theorizes and empirically investigates efforts to govern land grabs at global and regional level.This book 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

Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community.

Examines the impact of colonialism and postcolonial migration on the politics and identity of Euro-American imperial powers. This book considers how outsiders are part of the construction of the native identity of the nation-state, and also how they challenge its coherence when they return to the centre in our increasingly globalized world.

Brings together international experts on world politics, history and the social sciences to develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalization.

A collection of essays on rethinking the mainstream security paradigms. It presents an analysis of the long-term sources of political, military and cultural insecurity from the local to the global. It provides a basis for understanding the causes of conflict and violence in the world.

Aims to explore the emerging cultural relations among groups and individuals in terms of coherence and hybridity, identity and allegiance, and cooperation and conflict. From global and theoretical perspectives to case-specific approaches, this work attempts to come to terms with the complex cultural content of contemporary globalization.

Examines the connections between 'really existing globalization', global capitalism, and global poverty. This book considers the meaning and definition of global justice, its relation to global ethics and development in both theory and practice.

Aims to bring together an analysis of Pacific Asian countries. This work theorizes and explores the relationships between civil society and the production of urban spaces. It focuses on various types of 'civic spaces' that provide spaces for life that are autonomous from state and capital.

Food provides an ideal site for answering the fundamental questions of governance of central concern to globalization debates. This book presents the interdisciplinary scholarship about the various mechanisms governing global food systems and their impacts on human and environmental well-being.

Integrating the politics of identity and redistribution through critical reinterpretations of historical and contemporary development processes, this book intends to 're-think' the politics of global development.

Comprising five sections, this book deals with the dimensions of facilitating student success in higher education; facilitating student success through programs in the disciplines of study; student success and student diversity; student success and flexible modes of teaching and learning; and more.

Provides a multi-disciplinary contribution to debates about global justice and global ethics. This book addresses issues including human rights, the environment, health, labour, peace-building and political participation, and sexuality.

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.

By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictions at home. This book focuses on the construction of and challenges to the military, economic, and cultural imperial projects of the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Argues that globalization is not an exotic phenomenon. Instead this book emphasizes that globalization is something that has been with us as long as there have been people who are both interdependent and aware of that fact. It studies globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history permits theoretical and empirical investigation.

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 collection interrogates the multifaceted ways in which global transformations are constituted by deeply gendered socio-economic practices at the level of the 'everyday'. It originally published as a special issue in Globalizations.

Brings together international experts on world politics, history and the social sciences to develop a long-term analysis to address the problems of globalization.

Shows how globalization is 'contestable' in many different ways and how the counter-movements we have seen emerging over the years also 'bear witness' on behalf of an alternative human future. This book is of interest to students and scholars of international relations, politics and of globalization and global governance in particular.

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 book challenges conventional accounts of international development policy by exploring the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a hegemonic and colonial project. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.