The major problems facing the world as it gets used to the twenty-first century are global inequality, poverty, war and militarism, oppression, exploitation and ecological sustainability. Far from solving these problems, economic and political neo-liberalism seems to be plunging us deeper into them. Diverse opposition movements have arisen over the years to combat these problems, which the groups generally consider to be the result of "globalization". These opposition movements suffer greatly from being opposed to lots of things without necessarily putting forward realistic alternative suggestions. This impressive new book seeks to analyze and develop serious alternatives to the status quo. With contributions from a wide range of scholars, this important book will provide a uniquely varied outlook. Students and academics involved in international politics and economics as well as general readers with an interest in the anti-globalization movement will find this work incredibly useful.

Contents:
Introduction
Robert Albritton and Richard Westra Towards Democracy Through Socialisms
Part One: Governance and Law
1. Robert Albritton Socialism and Individual Freedom
2. Marjorie Griffin Cohen Globalization's Challenge to Feminist Political Economy and the Law
Part Two: Reembedding
3. Vandana Shiva Earth Democracy
4. Daniel Drache The Imperative of the Social Bond After the Triumph of Markets
5. Colin Duncan Adam Smith's Greeb Vision and the Future of Global Socialism
6. John Bell Marx's Anti-Authoritarian Ecocommunism
Part Three: Pleasure
7. Kate Soper Hedonist Revisionism
8. Shannon Bell Post-Porn/Anti-Porn: Queer Socialist Pornography
Part Four: Development Visions
9. John Saul The Failure of African Socialisms and Their Future
10. Richard Westra The Impasse in Development Theory
Part Five: Political Agency
11. Ariel Salleh Theorizing the Meta-Industrial Class in an Era of Bio-Colonialism
12. William Corlett Postscript on the Surplus Population
Part Six: Possible Worlds
13. Tom Sekine Socialism Beyond Market and Productivism
14. Teresa Brennan From Socialists to Localists

Subversive Itinerary investigates the theoretical evolution of the influential political theorist Gad Horowitz, as well as the historical impact of his ideas on Canadian life and letters. Bringing together dynamic new works by both established and emerging scholars, along with three new articles by Horowitz himself, this volume examines the concepts he developed and extends his approach beyond the current historical moment. The book includes a history of Horowitz's engagements as a public intellectual through appraisals of his early, mid, and late-career contributions, from the sixties to the present day. Along the way, the contributors present innovative new work in Canadian political thought, continental theory, Jewish philosophy, Buddhism, and radical general semantics. Subversive Itinerary demonstrates how Horowitz's itinerary delivers invaluable tools for understanding issues of critical importance today.

"I found this a fascinating book: wide-ranging, readable." Alison Jaggar

Bell shows how the flesh-and-blood female body engaged in sexual interaction for payment has no inherent meaning and is signified differently in different cultures or discourses. The author contends that modernity has produced "the prostitute" as the other within the categorial other: woman."