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The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies provides
diverse and cutting-edge perspectives on this fast-changing field.
For 30 years the world has been caught in a long 'global
interregnum,' plunging from one crisis to the next and witnessing
the emergence of new, vibrant, multiple, and sometimes
contradictory forms of popular resistance and politics. This global
'interregnum' - or a period of uncertainty where the old hegemony
is fading and the new ones have not yet been fully realized -
necessitates critical self-reflection, brave intellectual
speculation and (un)learning of perceived wisdoms, and greater
transdisciplinary collaboration across theories, localities, and
subjects. This Handbook takes up this challenge by developing fresh
perspectives on globalization, development, neoliberalism,
capitalism, and their progressive alternatives, addressing issues
of democracy, power, inequality, insecurity, precarity, wellbeing,
education, displacement, social movements, violence and war, and
climate change. Throughout, it emphasizes the dynamics for system
change, including bringing post-capitalist, feminist, (de)colonial,
and other critical perspectives to support transformative global
praxis. This volume brings together a mixture of fresh and
established scholars from across disciplines and from a range of
both Northern and Southern contexts. Researchers and students from
around the world and across the fields of politics, sociology,
international development, international relations, geography,
economics, area studies, and philosophy will find this an
invaluable and fresh guide to global studies in the 21st century.
This book is the first general social analysis that seriously
considers the daily experience of information disruption and
software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an
investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form
of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing
informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as
secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes
disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages
with theories of information society which privilege information
order, offering a strong counterpoint centred on "disinformation."
Disorder and the Disinformation Society offers a practical agenda,
arguing that difficulties in producing software are both inherent
to the process of developing software and in the social dynamics of
informationalism. It outlines the dynamics of software failure as
they impinge on of information workers and on daily life, explores
why computerized finance has become inherently self-disruptive,
asks how digital enclosure and intellectual property create
conflicts over cultural creativity and disrupt informational
accuracy and scholarship, and reveals how social media can extend,
but also distort, the development of social movements.
In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the
international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and
accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of
urgency and, despite consensus on the need for action, the growing
failure of international climate policy engendered new political
space for social movements. By 2007 a 'climate justice' movement
was surfacing and developing a strong critique of existing official
climate policies and engaging in new forms of direct action to
assert the need for reduced extraction and burning of fossil fuels.
Climate Action Upsurge offers an insight into this important period
in climate movement politics, drawing on the perspectives of
activists who were directly engaged in the mobilisation process.
Through the interpretation of these perspectives the book
illustrates important lessons for the climate movement today. In
developing its examination of the climate action upsurge, the book
focuses on individual activists involved in direct action 'Climate
Camps' in Australia, while drawing comparisons and highlighting
links with climate campaigns in other locales. The book should be
of interest to scholars and researchers in climate change,
environmental sociology, politics, policy and activism.
Even in the face of neoliberal globalization, nationalism
remains a significant political force. The leading contributors to
this new volume explore the extent to which nationalism can be a
foundation for alternative solidarities. Against the axiom that
with globalization all that is solid melts into air, this anthology
debates the extent to which different forms of solidarity remain
viable - from the solidarities of local political groups to the
solidarities of nationalism, internationalism and alternative
globalisms.
Organized into three sections, the book addresses the
relationship between the contemporary formations of nationalism,
globalism and solidarity movements:
- Part 1 offers a framework for understanding globalization and
discusses the effect of globality on nationalism
- Part 2 addresses the logics of nationalisms in globalizing
contexts: respectively, liberal nationalism, left nationalism,
post-colonial nationalism, and revivals of nationalism
- Part 3 addresses issues of solidarity and integration in a
world of nationalism and globalism, asking how differing forms of
connectivity may be emerging, disrupting prevailing oppositions and
relations, focusing on social movements and solidarity.
Offering the first detailed study of the relationship between
globalization and nationalism, Nationalism and Global Solidarities
will be of strong interest to students and scholars of politics,
sociology and international political economy.
The institutions and structures of modern globalization and the
modern nation-state were formed through concurrent processes and
have changed in relation to each other. This simple statement goes
directly against those who would treat nationalism and globalism as
the antithetical outcomes of two succeeding epochs. Likewise it
challenges those who would narrowly define globalization as that
which undermines the nation-state. However, it still leaves much to
argue about. The apparently contradictory practices and ideologies
of globalism and nationalism have been in tension ever since
nation-states formed in the nineteenth century as part of
globalizing system of states.
In the present century these tensions have become even more
pronounced with many writers from both the Left and the Right
proclaiming that globalization is effecting a tidal wave of change,
leaving the nation-state behind in its wake. Despite the immensity
of the change, it is becoming clearer that globalization is not
drowning everything. It is certainly possible that processes of
globalization may eventually undermine modern forms of nation-state
sovereignty, but there is no inevitability about such an outcome,
neither in logic nor in the day-to-day details of how power
operates around the world. What is happening to the nation-state
under conditions of intensified globalization, how should we
respond? This is the first problematic addressed by the book.
We have seen both nationalist revivals and reassertion of movements
from below - from neo-tribalism and new forms of traditionalism to
anti-globalization movements and new kinds of grass-roots politics.
These suggest the need for a very different approach -different
from the seamless 'world of flows', or technologically-driven
'network society' suggested by some. Yet the extent of 'disorder'
can be exaggerated. A number of otherwise sophisticated writers
have found themselves arguing that the postmodern world has become
increasingly fragmented without having an account of the level at
which fragmentation takes place, and the level at which
reintegration is occurring. Globalization cannot be understood
simply as processes of disorder, fragmentation or rupture. Nor, on
the other hand, is it simply a force of homogenization.
This leads us to the second problematic of the book. Globalism
heralds a new era of corporate globalization, but at the same time
it generates new foundations for identification and mobilization.
Just as classical imperialism generated anti-imperialist movements
and anti-colonial nationalisms, so today's 'empire' generates new
frameworks for identification and mobilization. It seems that
globalizing social forces generate frameworks beyond the national,
but in the process create new foundations for nationalism. The book
asks the following questions. Are we entering a new phase in the
relationship between internationality and nationalism, or is
nationalism rendered irredeemably contradictory, and anachronistic?
Does nationalism re-enter by the back door, renewed and
invigorated, whether as a partner of globalism or as its bete noir?
What are the contemporary bases for a politics of solidarity in a
globalizing world? These questions run implicitly through all the
chapters.
The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies provides
diverse and cutting-edge perspectives on this fast-changing field.
For 30 years the world has been caught in a long 'global
interregnum,' plunging from one crisis to the next and witnessing
the emergence of new, vibrant, multiple, and sometimes
contradictory forms of popular resistance and politics. This global
'interregnum' - or a period of uncertainty where the old hegemony
is fading and the new ones have not yet been fully realized -
necessitates critical self-reflection, brave intellectual
speculation and (un)learning of perceived wisdoms, and greater
transdisciplinary collaboration across theories, localities, and
subjects. This Handbook takes up this challenge by developing fresh
perspectives on globalization, development, neoliberalism,
capitalism, and their progressive alternatives, addressing issues
of democracy, power, inequality, insecurity, precarity, wellbeing,
education, displacement, social movements, violence and war, and
climate change. Throughout, it emphasizes the dynamics for system
change, including bringing post-capitalist, feminist, (de)colonial,
and other critical perspectives to support transformative global
praxis. This volume brings together a mixture of fresh and
established scholars from across disciplines and from a range of
both Northern and Southern contexts. Researchers and students from
around the world and across the fields of politics, sociology,
international development, international relations, geography,
economics, area studies, and philosophy will find this an
invaluable and fresh guide to global studies in the 21st century.
This book is the first general social analysis that seriously
considers the daily experience of information disruption and
software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an
investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form
of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing
informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as
secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes
disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages
with theories of information society which privilege information
order, offering a strong counterpoint centred on "disinformation."
Disorder and the Disinformation Society offers a practical agenda,
arguing that difficulties in producing software are both inherent
to the process of developing software and in the social dynamics of
informationalism. It outlines the dynamics of software failure as
they impinge on of information workers and on daily life, explores
why computerized finance has become inherently self-disruptive,
asks how digital enclosure and intellectual property create
conflicts over cultural creativity and disrupt informational
accuracy and scholarship, and reveals how social media can extend,
but also distort, the development of social movements.
In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the
international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and
accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of
urgency and, despite consensus on the need for action, the growing
failure of international climate policy engendered new political
space for social movements. By 2007 a 'climate justice' movement
was surfacing and developing a strong critique of existing official
climate policies and engaging in new forms of direct action to
assert the need for reduced extraction and burning of fossil fuels.
Climate Action Upsurge offers an insight into this important period
in climate movement politics, drawing on the perspectives of
activists who were directly engaged in the mobilisation process.
Through the interpretation of these perspectives the book
illustrates important lessons for the climate movement today. In
developing its examination of the climate action upsurge, the book
focuses on individual activists involved in direct action 'Climate
Camps' in Australia, while drawing comparisons and highlighting
links with climate campaigns in other locales. The book should be
of interest to scholars and researchers in climate change,
environmental sociology, politics, policy and activism.
This book offers a unique grounded analysis of recent crises and
transformations in academic work. It charts international and
Australia-based efforts to overcome academic fragmentation and
precarity, and to advance agendas for the public university. It is
based on extensive qualitative interviews with academics and
managers across several universities in Australia. It finds new
grounds for ‘universal’ universities, with decent jobs, to
serve the public good. The book is aimed at students and scholars
from sociology, education, politics and industrial relations, and a
wider readership concerned about the future of universities.
Analysis centres on a trade union-led initiative in Australia aimed
at decasualising universities, and ensuing debates about the impact
of academic fragmentation. The authors argue for strengthening the
teaching/research nexus as the foundation-stone for public purpose
universities.
Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises - social,
ecological, political. In the past, crises of global order have
generated large-scale social transformations, and the current
crises likewise hold a transformative promise. Social movements
become a crucial barometer, in signalling both the demise and rise
of political formations and programs. Elite strategies, framed as
crisis management, create their own disordering side-effects.
Experiments in movement strategy gain greater significance, as do
contending elite efforts at repressing, managing or displacing the
fall-out. In this book we investigate both movements and management
in the face of crisis, taking crisis and unanticipated consequences
as a normal state-of-play. The book enquires into the winners and
losers from crisis, and investigates the movement-management nexus
as it unfolds in particular localities as well as in broader
contexts. The book deals with some of the most pressing conflicts
of our time, and produces a range of theoretical insights: the
ubiquity of crisis is seen as not only a hallmark of social life,
but a way into a different kind of social analysis. This book was
published as a special issue of Globalizations.
Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises - social,
ecological, political. In the past, crises of global order have
generated large-scale social transformations, and the current
crises likewise hold a transformative promise. Social movements
become a crucial barometer, in signalling both the demise and rise
of political formations and programs. Elite strategies, framed as
crisis management, create their own disordering side-effects.
Experiments in movement strategy gain greater significance, as do
contending elite efforts at repressing, managing or displacing the
fall-out. In this book we investigate both movements and management
in the face of crisis, taking crisis and unanticipated consequences
as a normal state-of-play. The book enquires into the winners and
losers from crisis, and investigates the movement-management nexus
as it unfolds in particular localities as well as in broader
contexts. The book deals with some of the most pressing conflicts
of our time, and produces a range of theoretical insights: the
ubiquity of crisis is seen as not only a hallmark of social life,
but a way into a different kind of social analysis. This book was
published as a special issue of Globalizations.
Are political activists connected to the global justice movement
simplistically opposed to neoliberal globalization? Is their
political vision 'incoherent' and their policy proposals 'naive'
and 'superficial' as is often claimed by the mainstream media?
Drawing on dozens of interviews and rich textual analyses involving
nearly fifty global justice organizations linked to the World
Social Forum, the authors of this pioneering study challenge this
prevailing view. They present a compelling case that the global
justice movement has actually fashioned a new political ideology
with global reach: 'justice globalism'. Far from being incoherent,
justice globalism possesses a rich and nuanced set of core concepts
and powerful ideological claims. The book investigates how justice
globalists respond to global financial crises, to escalating
climate change, and to the global food crisis. It finds justice
globalism generating new political agendas and campaigns to address
these pressing problems. Justice globalism, the book concludes, has
much to contribute to solving the serious global challenges of the
21st century. Justice Globalism will prove a stimulating read for
undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences and
humanities who are taking courses on globalization, global studies
and global justice.
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Letters to Kennedy (Hardcover)
John Kenneth Galbraith; Edited by James Goodman
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A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these
letters give us a firsthand look at the working relationship
between a president and one of his close advisers, John Kenneth
Galbraith. In an early letter, Galbraith mentions his "ambition to
be the most reticent adviser in modern political history". But as a
respected intellectual and author of the celebrated The Affluent
Society, he was not to be positioned so lightly, and his letters
are replete with valuable advice about economics, public policy,
and the federal bureaucracy. As the United States' ambassador to
India from 1961 to 1963, Galbraith made use of his position to
counsel the President on foreign policy, especially as it bore on
the Asian subcontinent and, ultimately, Vietnam. Written with verve
and wit, his letters were relished by a president who had little
patience for foolish ideas or bad prose. They stand out today as a
vibrant chronicle of some of the most subtle and critical moments
in the days of the Kennedy administration - and a fascinating
record of the counsel that Galbraith offered President Kennedy.
Ranging from a pithy commentary on Kennedy's speech accepting the
1960 Democratic presidential nomination (and inaugurating the "New
Frontier") to reflections on critical matters of state such as the
Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of Communism in Indochina,
Letters to Kennedy presents a rare, intimate picture of the lives
and minds of a political intellectual and an intellectual
politician during a particularly bright moment in American history.
"Riveting . . . An engrossing, street-level recounting and
ambivalent ode to a great city."--Jamie Berger, "San Francisco
Chronicle"
On July 13, 1977, there was a blackout in New York City. With the
dark came excitement, adventure, and fright in subway tunnels,
office towers, busy intersections, high-rise stairwells, hotel
lobbies, elevators, and hospitals. There was revelry in bars and
restaurants, music and dancing in the streets. On block after
block, men and women proved themselves heroes by helping neighbors
and strangers make it through the night.
Unfortunately, there was also widespread looting, vandalism, and
arson. Even before police restored order, people began to ask and
argue about why. Why did people do what they did when the lights
went out? The argument raged for weeks but it was just like the
night: lots of heat, little light-a shouting match between those
who held fast to one explanation and those who held fast to
another.
James Goodman cuts between accidents, encounters, conversations,
exchanges, and arguments to re-create that night and its aftermath
in a dizzying accumulation of detail. Rejecting simple dichotomies
and one-dimensional explanations for why people act as they do in
moments of conflict and crisis, Goodman illuminates attitudes,
ideas, and experiences that have been lost in facile
generalizations and analyses. Journalistic re-creation at its most
exciting, Blackout provides a whirlwind tour of 1970s New York and
a challenge to conventional thinking.
Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal
production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book
explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific
source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting
coal production, focusing specifically on how campaigners are
trying to stop coal mining in India, Germany, and Australia.
Through in-depth comparative ethnography, it shows how local people
are fighting to save their homes, livelihoods, and environments,
creating new constituencies and alliances for the transition from
fossil fuels. The book relates these struggles to conflicts between
global climate policy and the national coal-industrial complex.
With coal's meaning transformed from an important asset to a
threat, and the coal industry declining, it charts reasons for
continuing coal dependence, and how this can be overcome. It will
provide a source of inspiration for energy transition for
researchers in environment, sustainability, and politics, as well
as policymakers.
This introductory text offers a contemporary treatment of computer architecture using assembly and machine language with a focus on software. Students learn how computers work through a clear, generic presentation of a computer architecture; a departure from the traditional focus on a specific architecture. A computer's capabilities are introduced within the context of software, reinforcing the software focus of the text. Designed for computer science majors in an assembly language course, this text uses a top-down approach to the material that enables students to begin programming immediately and to understand the assembly language, the interface between hardware and software. The text includes examples from the MIPS RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architecture and an accompanying software simulator package simulates a MIPS RISC processor (the software does not require a MIPS processor to run).
Are political activists connected to the global justice movement
simplistically opposed to neoliberal globalization? Is their
political vision 'incoherent' and their policy proposals 'naive'
and 'superficial' as is often claimed by the mainstream media?
Drawing on dozens of interviews and rich textual analyses involving
nearly fifty global justice organizations linked to the World
Social Forum, the authors of this pioneering study challenge this
prevailing view. They present a compelling case that the global
justice movement has actually fashioned a new political ideology
with global reach: 'justice globalism'. Far from being incoherent,
justice globalism possesses a rich and nuanced set of core concepts
and powerful ideological claims. The book investigates how justice
globalists respond to global financial crises, to escalating
climate change, and to the global food crisis. It finds justice
globalism generating new political agendas and campaigns to address
these pressing problems. Justice globalism, the book concludes, has
much to contribute to solving the serious global challenges of the
21st century. Justice Globalism will prove a stimulating read for
undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences and
humanities who are taking courses on globalization, global studies
and global justice.
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