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Owen Worth - Resistance in the Age of Austerity, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Resistance in the Age of Austerity

Nationalism, the Failure of the Left and the Return of God

Av Owen Worth

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Beskrivning
In November 1999 the first protests associated with the 'anti-globalisation movement' took place in Seattle, and came to be seen as the starting point for globalised resistance to neoliberal capitalism. Despite initial optimism, the following years have seen little progress in formulating a coherent alternative to neoliberalism, a failure that has become particularly poignant in the aftermath of the recent credit crisis. Now, the neoliberal mandate that appeared to be in 'crisis' in just 2008 has reinvented itself through the guise of a new 'era of austerity'.In this timely book, Worth assesses the growing diversity of resistance to neoliberalism - progressive, nationalist and religious - and argues that, troublingly, the more reactionary alternatives to globalisation currently provide just as coherent a base for building opposition as those associated with the traditional 'left-wing' anti-globalisation movements. From the shortcomings of the Occupy movement to the rise of Radical Islam, the re-emergence of the far-right in Western Europe to the startling impact of the Tea Party in the US - Worth shows that while a progressive alternative is possible, it cannot be taken for granted.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-04-11
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 240 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 176
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781780323350
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Owen Worth is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has published widely in the areas of global political economy and in particular in the areas of globalization, hegemony and resistance. He is the author of Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia (2005), and he co-edited European Regionalism and the Left (with Gerry Strange, 2011), Globlisation and the ‘New’ Semi-Peripheries (with Phoebe Moore, 2009) and Critical Perspectives on International Political Economy (with Jason Abbott, 2002). He has published work on resistance and globalization in Global Society, Globalizations, Capital and Class, and Third World Quarterly, and has also published in International Politics, Review of International Studies, and Journal of International Relations and Development. He is the current managing editor of Capital and Class and is on the executive board of the Conference of Socialist Economics.

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Owen Worth does a very good job of moving his readers towards a political understanding of the present juncture that is at once pragmatic and radical. Interlacing commentary and analysis, Resistance in the Age of Austerity builds intelligently on previous scholarship. Well informed of a wide variety of practice (from the right, the left, and 'from above'), it is topical, conceptually rigorous, and astute in thinking through the politics of counter-hegemony. Holding quite tenaciously to a line of argument in the grand Gramscian tradition, Owen Worth offers a valuable contribution to current debates in the left. He makes a very good case that debates should be more focused on strategy, as we look beyond neoliberal politics.

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