ABSTRACT
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.
PART I: THEORY IN TRANSITION 1. Reinventing Global Studies Through Transformative Scholarship 2. 21st 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 5. Global Economy of Knowledge in Transformative Global Studies 6. Another World is Possible 7. Revisiting Neoliberalism in the Age of Rising Authoritarianisms 8. End of Ideology? 9. Pueblo and Exteriority 10. Transmodern Transdevelopment 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 14. Pro-Capitalist Violence and Globalization 15. Populism and Transformative Politics in West Bengal, India 16. The (Mis)shaping of Health 17. Politics of Hope Socio-Ecology 18. A Materialist Ecofeminist Reading of the Green Economy 19. Climate Change and Capitalism 20. Planetary Ethics beyond Neoliberalism 21. The Politics of the Land Rush 22. Three Worlds of Climate Imperialism? Socio-Economics 23. Work in Global Capitalism 24. Unravelling Monopoly Capital in the 21st Century and the Role of the Imperial Innovation System 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? 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 31. Subaltern Politics in the World’s Largest Democracy 32. Intersectionality and Refugee Justice 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
