Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics Contributor(s): Goodman, James (Editor), Marshall, Jonathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138951153 ISBN-13: 9781138951150 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $35.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
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BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
Physical Information: 158 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |