ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the major forces shaping development for countries all around the world and how we might think about a more just, sustainable global vision. It highlights how corporate globalization and neoliberalism became dominating global forces from the 1980s and how this deepened over time through government policies around liberalization, deregulation, and privatization. Even seemingly centre-left or ‘third way’ governments have promoted neoliberal agendas with the result that the far- and centre-right have now detached themselves from this agenda to promoting a xenophobic version of deglobalization that is out of step with its original emancipatory agenda. The chapter argues that emancipatory agenda is based on ethical cooperation, solidarity, community, and ecological stabilization. It prioritizes locally specific responses and visions of sustainability along with local production and consumption. It demands precedence be given to the quality of life over economic growth, while creating a healthy balance between population and ecology. How deglobalization speaks to food sovereignty is also introduced.
