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.
ISBN: | 9780415628358 |
Publication date: | 11th December 2013 |
Author: | James Goodman, Jonathan Paul Marshall |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 192 pages |
Series: | Rethinking Globalizations |
Genres: |
Environmental science, engineering and technology Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action Social and political philosophy Political ideologies and movements Political economy |