Globalization and the Politics of Resistance FROM THE PUBLISHER
The key political and social tension in the coming era will be between the forces of neoliberal economic globalization, seeking to expand the freedom of private capital and the market, and the forces of social resistance, seeking to preserve and redefine community and solidarity. The paradox of 'globalization' is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance, making 'the politics of resistance' both inevitable and central.
Rejecting economic determinism, this book sets out to establish the centrality of 'the political' in our understandings of globalization. In a wide-ranging set of essays, distinguished contributors explore the new 'strategies of resistance' emerging on local, national, regional and global scales. The authors engage in critical rethinking of what practices now constitute viable political strategies in the world economy, focusing on popular responses to neoliberal globalization and the rearticulation of society, politics and the state.
SYNOPSIS
Hillary Clinton, Michel Foucault, General Motors, and Ralph Nader all figure in this perspective on international economic integration. In his foreword, John Kenneth Galbraith discusses the various brands of the social left and the market system ("capitalism" is no longer a politically correct term). The 18 papers bifurcate into sections on resistance to globalization through political thinking and local-to-global resistance strategies. Foci include "ambiguities of the new populism" such as globalization vs. community, and the new role of the State; the case of Shell vs. the Ogoni people in Nigeria; and a comparative analysis of structural adjustment in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. Gills lectures in international politics at the U. of Newcastle upon Tyne. The global contributors are academics mostly from the economic and social sciences fields. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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