Review of Global Justice Networks: Geographies of Transnational Solidarity
In: Studies in social justice, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 161-163
ISSN: 1911-4788
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In: Studies in social justice, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 161-163
ISSN: 1911-4788
In: Capital & class, Volume 36, Issue 2, p. 346-349
ISSN: 2041-0980
In: Capital & class: CC, Volume 36, Issue 2, p. 346-349
ISSN: 0309-8168
In: Rethinking globalizations
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Volume 50, Issue 3, p. 514-533
ISSN: 1469-9044
AbstractConfronting the coming five decades from our present conjuncture demands – to paraphrase Antonio Gramsci's famous mantra – both critical pessimism and a wilful politics of hope. In this article, we engage with the politics of climate breakdown and the responses to wider socio-ecological crises with a necessary critical pessimism. Specifically, we confront the capture of green transition imperatives by finance capital, as well as the troubling orientation of transition towards building new structures of accumulation around the vision of an electrified consumer society. We also see the coming decades being marked by the ever-increasing wealth of global asset-owning classes – who, by definition, enclose the atmospheric commons faster than any other community. Against this dystopian picture of increasingly concentrated wealth, corporate excess, and terrestrial crisis, we focus on the stubborn reproduction of socio-ecological life through various grounded projects across the world. We engage with communities who work against structural constraints to reproduce life from below through urban commoning, food sovereignty, Indigenous organising, and caretaking economies – all of which are scaling out their visions through alternative internationals. All of these projects, we argue, present a planetary and multiscalar political economy in practice, which connects grounded experience with resistance to the dynamics of capitalism at the state, corporate, and transnational levels. With lessons from these communities in mind, we call for a 'planetary political economy of the global majority', which prioritises the reproduction of socio-ecological life according to the visions of grounded anti-systemic projects.
In: Globalizations, Volume 16, Issue 3, p. 233-244
ISSN: 1474-774X
In: Review of African political economy, Volume 45, Issue 155
ISSN: 1740-1720
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This introduction to the ROAPE debate reasserts the centrality of revolutionary theory to understand the dynamics of social and political struggles in contemporary Middle East and North Africa. Framed around the conceptual and political interventions brought about by Brecht De Smet's Gramsci on Tahrir (2016), we discuss the utility of Gramscian concepts in explaining the trajectories of social mobilisations in the peripheries of global capitalism.
In: International political sociology, Volume 15, Issue 3, p. 415-439
ISSN: 1749-5687
AbstractMass incarceration, police brutality, and border controls are part and parcel of the everyday experiences of marginalized and racialized communities across the world. Recent scholarship in international relations, sociology, and geography has examined the prevalence of these coercive practices through the prism of "disciplinary," "penal," or "authoritarian" neoliberalism. In this collective discussion, we argue that although this literature has brought to the fore neoliberalism's reliance on state violence, it has yet to interrogate how these carceral measures are linked to previous forms of global racial ordering. To rectify this moment of "colonial unknowing," the collective discussion draws on decolonial approaches, Indigenous studies, and theories of racial capitalism. It demonstrates that "new" and "neoliberal" forms of domestic control must be situated within the global longue durée of racialized and colonial accumulation by dispossession. By mapping contemporary modes of policing, incarceration, migration control, and surveillance onto earlier forms of racial–colonial subjugation, we argue that countering the violence of neoliberalism requires more than nostalgic appeals for a return to Keynesianism. What is needed is abolition—not just of the carceral archipelago, but of the very system of racial capitalism that produces and depends on these global vectors of organized violence and abandonment.
Mass incarceration, police brutality, and border controls are part and parcel of the everyday experiences of marginalized and racialized communities across the world. Recent scholarship in international relations, sociology, and geography has examined the prevalence of these coercive practices through the prism of "disciplinary," "penal," or "authoritarian" neoliberalism. In this collective discussion, we argue that although this literature has brought to the fore neoliberalisms reliance on state violence, it has yet to interrogate how these carceral measures are linked to previous forms of global racial ordering. To rectify this moment of "colonial unknowing," the collective discussion draws on decolonial approaches, Indigenous studies, and theories of racial capitalism. It demonstrates that "new" and "neoliberal" forms of domestic control must be situated within the global longue duree of racialized and colonial accumulation by dispossession. By mapping contemporary modes of policing, incarceration, migration control, and surveillance onto earlier forms of racial-colonial subjugation, we argue that countering the violence of neoliberalism requires more than nostalgic appeals for a return to Keynesianism. What is needed is abolition-not just of the carceral archipelago, but of the very system of racial capitalism that produces and depends on these global vectors of organized violence and abandonment. ; Funding Agencies|Helge Axelsson Johnson stiftelse; Leverhulme TrustLeverhulme Trust; Cambridge Commonwealth European and International Trust; Jo Cox PhD Studentship at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
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In: Journal of international relations and development, Volume 19, Issue 3, p. 420-447
ISSN: 1581-1980
In: International relations: the journal of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies
ISSN: 1741-2862
World Affairs Online
"This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East. In the light of the Arab uprisings of 2011, the Syria crisis, the escalation of regional terrorism and the military coup attempt in Turkey. It illustrates the dramatic fluctuations in Turkish foreign policy towards key Middle Eastern countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The contributors analyze Turkey's deepening involvement in Middle Eastern regional affairs, also addressing issues such as terrorism, social and political movements and minority rights struggles. While these problems have traditionally been regarded as domestic matters, this book highlights their increasingly regional dimension and implications for the foreign affairs of Turkey and countries in the Middle East." -- Back cover
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