The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies

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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. Cover Endorsements Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgments Towards new agendas for transformative global studies: an introduction PART I: Theory in transition 1. Reinventing global studies through transformative scholarship: a critical proposition 2. Twenty-first century deglobalization and the struggle for global justice in the world revolution of 20xx 3. On the question of bodies, flesh, and global racial capitalism 4. Crises of capital and climate: three contradictions and prospects for contestation 5. Global economy of knowledge in transformative global studies: decoloniality, ecologies of knowledges, and pluriversity 6. Another world is possible: the possibilities for a transformative, postcapitalist education 7. Revisiting neoliberalism in the age of rising authoritarianisms: between convictions and contradictions 8. End of ideology?: A neoliberal hoax and lessons for the left 9. Pueblo and exteriority: on the thought of Enrique Dussel 10. Transmodern transdevelopment: an alternative response to the 21st century global ecosociocultural crisis PART II: Transformation in the interregnum Socio-politics 11. The political economy dynamics of global disintegration and its implications for war, peace and security in the 21st century 12. BRICS from above, commoning from below 13. Contested American dominance: global order in an era of rising powers 14. Pro-capitalist violence and globalization: lessons from Latin America 15. Populism and transformative politics in West Bengal, India 16. The (mis)shaping of health: problematizing neoliberal discourses of individualism and responsibility 17. Politics of hope: transformation or stagnation? Socio-ecology 18. A materialist ecofeminist reading of the green economy: or, yes Karl, the ecological footprint is sex-gendered 19. Climate change and capitalism 20. Planetary ethics beyond neoliberalism: the Earth Charter’s “Community of Life” 21. The politics of the land rush: scales of land contention and the reconfiguration of political authority 22. Three worlds of climate imperialism?: Prospects for climate justice Socio-economics 23. Work in global capitalism 24. Unravelling monopoly capital in the 21st century and the role of the imperial innovation system: Silicon Valley and counter-hegemonies 25. Public Health 4.0 in the emergent climate of global transformation 26. Global capitalism, wealth inequality, and the art sector 27. A capitalist world?: Imagining, envisioning and enacting futures of work and organisation centred around informal and diverse economies 28. Owning the future of work 29. The future of labor and capital in China PART III: Alternative futures: beyond the interregnum 30. Toward human/non-human conviviality: Buen Vivir as a transformative alternative to capitalist coloniality 31. Subaltern politics in the world’s largest democracy: utopian horizons versus conjunctural compulsions? 32. Intersectionality and refugee justice: feminist approaches to insecurity and precarity 33. New forms of feminized resistances and their role in the (re)creation of emancipatory political subjectivities in Latin America 34. Territories of decolonising feminist/ised struggles 35. Governing the Petropolis: from resource entrepreneurialism to resource commoning 36. Strategy in/for progressive transformation: a Pluri-scalar war of position 37. Struggle, resistance and disruption in austerity Europe 38. The future of revolutions: intersectional global climate justice as humanity’s best hope Index