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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|136 pages
Theory in transition
chapter 1|16 pages
Reinventing global studies through transformative scholarship
chapter 5|15 pages
Global economy of knowledge in transformative global studies
chapter 6|13 pages
Another world is possible
chapter 7|11 pages
Revisiting neoliberalism in the age of rising authoritarianisms
chapter 10|14 pages
Transmodern transdevelopment
part II|97 pages
Transformation in the interregnum
chapter 16|13 pages
The (mis)shaping of health
part |70 pages
Socio-ecology
chapter 18|12 pages
A materialist ecofeminist reading of the green economy
chapter 21|14 pages
The politics of the land rush
part |102 pages
Socio-economics
chapter 24|12 pages
Unravelling monopoly capital in the 21st century and the role of the imperial innovation system
chapter 27|16 pages
A capitalist world?
part III|123 pages
Alternative futures