Rethinking Globalizations
About the Book Series
This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalisation and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalisation, this series seeks to capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities for the future.
States and Corporate Land Acquisition: Comparing Regimes of Dispossession across the Global South
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By Ward Berenschot, Neil Loughlin
September 28, 2026
This book examines how states and corporations across the Global South acquire land, identifying distinct patterns of expropriation and resistance. Across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, economic growth in sectors such as mining, agribusiness, energy, infrastructure, and real estate is driving ...
Ecology, Space, and Identity in the Eurasian Region: Between the Local and the Global
1st Edition
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By Lili Di Puppo, Arnab Roy Chowdhury
August 17, 2026
This book brings together the postcolonial and postsocialist conditions of the post-Soviet space and the Indian subcontinent through the study of human–nature relationships. These two regions are not only geographically entangled through Eurasia but are also characterized by hybrid modernization ...
Globalizations: The Shape of Things to Come
1st Edition
By Heikki Patomäki
July 20, 2026
What can we say about the shape of things to come in world politics, the probability of different possibilities, and the reflexivity of our anticipations? Building on post-Keynesian economic theory and classical theories of imperialism, the book discusses anticipations that neoliberalism will push ...
From ‘Carbon Democracy’ to ‘Climate Democracy’?
1st Edition
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By James Goodman, Tom Morton
May 22, 2026
What are the democratic requirements for effective climate action? how can ‘climate democracy’ be conceptualised? Liberal democracies emerged on the back of fossil fuels, creating what Tim Mitchell called ‘carbon democracy’. Three decades of climate policy have affirmed the controlling influence of...
Pink Tides, Right Turns in Latin America
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By Charmain Levy, Manuel Larrabure
May 22, 2026
This book presents case studies around issues of national development, right wing populism and use of social media, left wing authoritarianism and popular uprisings as well as reflections on short and long term political and economic cycles in Latin America in the past 10 years. Scholars, ...
The Far-Right in World Politics
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By Alexander Anievas, Richard Saull
May 22, 2026
This book addresses the reasons why the contemporary far-right has gained political resonance in a variety of states across both the Global North and South. The rise of far-right forms of politics in recent years throughout a range of geopolitical locales suggests the emergence of a distinct ...
The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future
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By S. A. Hamed Hosseini, Alexander Dunlap, Barry K. Gills
January 22, 2026
This book critically engages with a central dilemma facing counter-hegemonic movements as global crises intensify: how to foster systemic change while maintaining the plurality of their struggles. The Prospects of a Pluriversal Transition to a Post-Capitalist, Post-Carbon Future explores the ...
Che Lives!: The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics
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By Shannon Brincat
August 12, 2025
This book explores the vast and ongoing legacy of Che Guevara in world politics. It is one of the first volumes to explore both historical and contemporary manifestations of Che’s legacy, with an emphasis on the international dimensions of his thought and praxis. The chapters in this volume explore...
Socioecological Transformations: Linking Ontologies with Structures, Personal with Collective Change
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By Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen
July 25, 2025
Socioecological Transformations confronts dominant framings of transformation that either remain apolitical and ahistorical, or overemphasizes the structural causes, while bypassing the ontological roots of the present-day socioecological violence and destruction. It challenges the technocratic and...
Processes of Economic Informalization: Reconfigurations of Law, Labour, and the State
1st Edition
By Ilona Steiler
June 25, 2025
Grounded on an analysis of informalized labour in the urban economy of Dar es Salaam, Processes of Economic Informalization explores the conceptual politics involved in the political construction of the informal economy – diverse economic activities that are not regulated or protected by the state,...
Capital Redefined: A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life
1st Edition
By S. A. Hamed Hosseini, Barry K. Gills
January 30, 2025
Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of “capital,” departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory. They argue ...
Social Movements, the Poor and the New Politics of the Americas
1st Edition
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By Håvard Haarstad, Mark Amen, Asuncion Lera St Clair
October 14, 2024
Håvard Haarstad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. He has worked extensively on the political economy of natural resource extraction, and the role of social movements, civil society and labor unions in politicizing extraction.Mark Amen is ...