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Explaining the Russian invasion in Ukraine: between geopolitics, civilisational choice, and dead-end capitalist transition Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ivan Bakalov
This article engages with the debate about the causes for Russia’s full-scale military invasion in Ukraine. The existing explanations are organized into three groups revolving around commonalities ...
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From a business risk to full-scale crisis: the understanding of ‘climate threat’ in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Reports Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Salla Kaarina Pasula
This article suggests that the business sector’s engagement in climate governance is not only expanding but also providing them with an increasingly influential role in determining how climate risk...
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Unlearning possessive belonging: reading in relation with Indigenous science fiction Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Lara Daley, Sarah Wright
The work of Indigenous thinkers as writers of, and commentators on, Indigenous science fiction, calls for the unmaking of settler futurities in ways that assert Indigenous belonging in all times. I...
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Ontological insecurity and urgency as a political value. Discourses of youth climate activists in Portugal Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ricardo Campos, João Carlos Martins
As seen in other countries, Portuguese youth have been inspired by Greta Thunberg and her actions, which has led to protest marches, sit-ins, blockades and other forms of manifestations calling for...
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From society to cyberspace: contentions with authoritarianism amongst second-generation Kurdish students in London Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Shayan Moftizadeh
Though diasporas no longer reside in their homelands, the proliferation of globalization and movement, as well as the exponentially increasing reach of the Internet has meant that the link between ...
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Land-grabbing mafias and dispossession in the Brazilian Amazon: rural–urban land speculation and deforestation in the Santarém region Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Markus Kröger
This article explores the ways that illegal land grabbing has taken place in contemporary Brazil since 2003. The findings suggest that much more attention needs to be paid to the various forms of v...
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Education and socio-environmental justice in the pluriverse: decolonial perspectives Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Paola Minoia, José Castro-Sotomayor
A growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship underscores the imperative to explore and advance pluriversal education – an educational approach that embraces the diversity of ways of being, knowi...
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Engaging the postcolonial state: dam, forced relocation, and the Bhil Adivasi Group of the Narmada River Valley, India Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Vikramaditya Thakur
This paper shows the limits of the Global North activism related to environment and indigenous identity for the South to instead highlight the primacy of regional political processes. It studies th...
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Negotiating the public: re-municipalization, water politics and social reproduction Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Gemma Gasseau
In the context of the global wave of privatization of local public services, re-municipalization has emerged as a viable policy alternative, broadly understood as the return to public management. T...
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Conceptualizing variety in platform capitalism: the dynamics of variegated capitalism in Thai digital marketplace platforms Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Christopher Foster
Digital platforms are expanding globally with significant implications for how economies operate. We argue that the literature has tended to over-emphasize the globalized and homogeneous impacts of...
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Globalizations from below: understanding the spatialities, mobilities and resources of transnational migrant entrepreneurs across the globe Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Yvonne Riaño, Natasha Webster, Laure Sandoz, Giacomo Solano, Sakura Yamamura
Transnational corporations have been long recognized as the building blocks of global system theory and their impact is widely acknowledged and studied. By comparison, we have insufficient understa...
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Epistemic territories of kawsak sacha (living forest): cosmopolitics and cosmoeducation Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Paola Minoia, Andrés Tapia, Riikka E. Kaukonen Lindholm
This article aims to present the experience of Kichwa Indigenous peoples of Pastaza in Ecuador, and their agency in enforcing their rights to their ancestral cultures and lands. In their political ...
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Theorizing ethnolinguistic diversity under globalization: beyond biocultural analogies Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Alf Hornborg
This paper seeks to advance our theoretical understanding of diversifying and homogenizing processes in human societies by exploring the sources of and threats to ethnolinguistic or cultural divers...
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Youth responses to state-manufactured diaspora mobilization: Turkey’s diaspora governance and the politics of selective engagement Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Bahar Baser, Gözde Böcü
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has implemented transnational policies to strengthen ties among diaspora youth in Europe with Turkey. However, these policies have been highly se...
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Neoliberalisation, dissensus, and the demise of tripartite bargaining in Italy after the 2011 debt crisis: a Gramscian ‘common sense’ approach Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Davide Monaco
Against the backdrop of continent-wide neoliberal restructuring prompted by the Eurozone crisis, the demise of concertazione (tripartite bargaining) by technocratic and centre-left governments repr...
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Between (de-)mobilization, polarization, and transnational repression: the Egyptian diaspora in the wake of the January 25 uprising Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Arne F. Wackenhut
More than a decade has passed since the Egyptian Uprising of 2011 resulted in the ouster of long-time president Hosni Mubarak. This large-scale protest episode mobilized not only tens of thousands ...
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Crafting professional identities at the bottom of the knowledge economy a critical analysis of managerial discourses Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Maria-Carmen Pantea
In the context of labour arbitrage, Romania became home to an expanding nearshoring business service sector. Many graduates work in ‘call centres’: a generic term for various types of customer-orie...
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Diaspora activism in a non-traditional country of destination: the Gülen Movement in Czechia Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Lucie Tungul
Diaspora groups have increasingly become active and influential transnational actors, whose mobilization strategies react to strategic opportunities and constraints. The article explores how the GM...
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Hypermarketization: standardized shopping in emerging economies Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Johan Fischer
A hypermarket is a combined supermarket and department store that carries a large range of products. Since the opening of the first hypermarket in the US in the early 1930s, this concept has spread...
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Introduction: Che Guevara and world politics Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Shannon Brincat
This introductory article to the volume Che Lives! provides a general primer to Che Guevara's thinking and practice in world politics. Situating Che's historical significance as a radical agent and...
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Che Guevara and the case for revolutionary feminism in global politics Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Sara Meger
Despite his renown, feminists have had little to say about the ideals or legacy of Che Guevara. In global politics, feminism is more commonly associated with pacifist movements, and his advocacy of...
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Articulating post-apocalyptic environmentalism: global civil society and the struggle for anti-colonial climate politics in the climate movement Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Ludvig Sunnemark
This article examines the dynamics of the climate movement’s (CM) engagement within global civil society (GCS), focusing on how this relates to its evolving commitment to anti-colonial climate poli...
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‘Throwing in my two cents’: Burundian diaspora youth between conventional and transformative forms of mobilization Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Élise Féron
Since its independence in 1962, Burundi has witnessed several episodes of civil war and political unrest. The most recent of these, which started in 2015, triggered the migration of approx. 400,000...
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Transnational networks and mobilities of IT migrant entrepreneurs in a globalizing world Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Sakura Yamamura, Paul Lassalle
Transnational entrepreneurship has its origins in studies on IT entrepreneurs in the US, and on the role of contextual influences that enable the emergence of vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems. In...
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The ‘ideal citizen’ abroad: engaging Rwanda’s young generation diaspora Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Camilla Orjuela
When approaching its diaspora, the Rwandan government pays special attention to the young generation. Diaspora youth are seen as especially potent contributors to Rwanda’s development and security ...
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Blockchain-driven digital nomadism in the Basque e-Diaspora Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Igor Calzada
E-diasporas are communities of diaspora members utilizing digital technologies and data platforms to establish connections among themselves and with their homelands. In response to the pandemic, go...
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State capacity and populist rule in times of uncertainty: COVID-19 response in South Korea, Brazil, and Turkey Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Mustafa Kutlay, E. Fuat Keyman
In an age of ‘radical uncertainty,’ state capacity proves critical for countries to contain ‘wicked crises’ and improve the resilience of societies. At the same time, authoritarian populism has com...
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The production of rightlessness: palm oil companies and land dispossession in Indonesia Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Ward Berenschot, Ahmad Dhiaulhaq
ABSTRACT Addressing the comparative study of global land grabbing, this article seeks to explain the relative ease with which palm oil companies dispossess rural Indonesians of their land. Employing detailed documentation of 150 conflicts between rural communities and palm oil companies, we analyse both the actual processes through which companies acquire land as well as the legal provisions that facilitate
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Che’s critique of the Organization of American States: from Punta del Este (1961) to Bolivia (2019) Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Shannon Brincat, Juan Z. N. Cáceres
Che's revolutionary solidarity championed the Spirit of Bolivar and Marti across the Latin American Community. Underlying this solidarism was a fervent belief in the potential for an emancipated re...
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Storytelling, precarity and decolonizing practices Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Ybiskay González, Eliezer Sánchez-Lasaballett
ABSTRACT In this article, we explore the decolonial feminist's contribution to the study of precarity and explain the role of storytelling in legitimizing the knowledge of ‘the other’ in the activism/critique of decolonial feminism. The article offers a critique of the recent conceptualization of precarity that tends to ignore the history of racialized and feminized bodies, and charts decolonial feminists’
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Struggles for the defence of territories and decolonial politics in Southern Chile Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Katia Valenzuela-Fuentes, Robinson Torres-Salinas, Bárbara Jerez-Henríquez
ABSTRACT This article explores the emergence of decolonial political subjectivities in the struggle for the defence of territories and against extractivism in Greater Concepción, Chile. Drawing on a dialogue between decolonial and feminist scholarship, Latin American political ecology, and the praxis of Chilean socioenvironmental movements, we argue that the struggles for the defence of territories
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The political practices of gender experts: repurposing women's empowerment Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Kelly Gerard
ABSTRACT Gender experts are increasingly employed across governments, multilateral donors, companies, and NGOs where they are defining a new profession and a new field of study, driving calls for research into the relationship between expertise and feminism. At the same time, the instrumentalization of the women's empowerment approach has prompted analysis of whether it can be reharnessed to its radical
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Egypt’s diaspora policy in the post-June 2013 era as a transnational mechanism of regime legitimation Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Bosmat Yefet
ABSTRACT This article seeks to explore the question of why and how autocrats update their diaspora policy. Building on scholarship that deals with states’ motivations to engage with ‘their’ diasporas, alongside scholarship that has focused on authoritarian regimes’ durability, the article demonstrates how a regime’s legitimation process takes place in the transnational sphere and illuminates how authoritarian
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Fossil fuel companies’ duty of reparation: why the industry must concur to foot the climate bill Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Marco Grasso
ABSTRACT The fossil industry has greatly contributed to the increase of the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This evidence and five morally relevant facts establish its moral responsibility for climate harm. This responsibility imposes on fossil fuel companies a duty of reparation for the climate crisis which requires them to redress their wrongful actions that have led to climate
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Unpacking the ideational foundations of South American migration governance: a systematic analysis of the South American conference on migration (SACM) Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Mayra Feddersen, Luisa Feline Freier
ABSTRACT Is there empirical evidence for a liberal paradigm that informs South American immigration governance? And how does this paradigm relate to other ideas on managing immigration? Based on Pécoud’s (2020) categorization of immigration governance philosophies, and the content analysis of all final declarations of the South American Conference on Migration between 2000 and 2022, we confirm a dominant
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Epilogue: the ethico-politics of attention Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Michael J. Shapiro
ABSTRACT This epilogue moves from an autoethnographic reflection about interior design magazines to an interrogation of the workings of predatory capitalism in contemporary times of crisis. The text asks why in the context of ongoing global crises (including pandemics, environmental disaster, and extreme poverty) ‘our attention still fails to focus except very episodically, on the suffering of distant
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The impossible, necessary outside of nature: a Luhmannian intervention into post-humanist ecology Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Hannah Richter
ABSTRACT In the wake of climate change, social theory has been subject to a surge of new materialist and posthuman approaches that reconfigure ontology and politics beyond the modern nature/culture binary which the Anthropocene has rendered untenable. But their (re-)turn to ontological speculation brackets the socio-epistemic situatedness and productivity of the way we think nature and its relationship
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Climate movements in Germany, India, and Australia: dynamics of transition, transformation, and emergency Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 James Goodman, Tom Morton
Climate movements have emerged with increasing force as governments continually fail to address the mounting climate crisis. Successive movement strategies have proved integral to the possibility o...
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Futures, Events and excessive Learnings: review of Forsberg and Patomäki, Debating the war in Ukraine Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Ole Wæver
ABSTRACT Futures past, historically open when they were our present, are often recast as pre-determined after dramatic events. The war in Ukraine displays this pattern, and makes the book by Forsberg and Patomäki so welcome. It allows nuanced discussions of counterfactuals and causal complexes when the political climate favors reductionist, deterministic interpretations of who and what caused the war
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An erotic and poetic political subjectivity of the sacred (en)flesh(ed) Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Sara C. Motta, Norma L. Bermudez Gomez, Elizabeth F. Miranda
ABSTRACT In this article we rite/write, as an act of shamanic enfleshment, into knowing-being a decolonizing and feminist political subjectivity that centres the divine feminine and feminist spirituality of the abuelas. We journey across the territories of Colombia and so-called Australia and with the archetypes of Bachué, la Mujer Salvaje, la Mujer Amante-Hechicera, and Baubo, ella quien habla por
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Social networks for cross-border business activities: a comparison between transnational and domestic Moroccan migrant entrepreneurs Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Giacomo Solano
ABSTRACT The existing literature shows that social contacts and resources available through social networks are particularly important for migrant entrepreneurs. This seems to apply also to transnational migrant entrepreneurs, who are migrants involved in entrepreneurial activities crossing national borders. It is still not entirely clear which kind of social contacts they use, nor the differences
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Greening labour? The role of the SDGs in fostering sustainability integration within trade unions Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Francesco S. Montesano, Frank Biermann, Agni Kalfagianni, Marjanneke J. Vijge
The effective integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability by actors in all sectors is a core objective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Do trade u...
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Ukraine war and beyond Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Sundeep Waslekar
ABSTRACT The war in Ukraine has three possible pathways. One is conflict resolution but it does not appear likely. The second is a prolonged conflict. The third is a deceleration into a global nuclear conflict.
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Turkey and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: an interplay of bloc (de)formation, recognition and asymmetric interdependencies? Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Lerna K. Yanık
ABSTRACT This piece answers some of the issues (such as the potential emergence of new blocs, the role of interdependencies, and Western recognition) raised in Debating the War in Ukraine by examining Turkey’s role in the war in Ukraine. It argues that Turkey’s somewhat balanced policy in the war, trying to please both Ukraine and Russia, stems from three main considerations. First, Turkey’s economic
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International political economy and the state in the Middle East Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Hannes Baumann, Roberto Roccu
ABSTRACT International political economy has largely ignored the Middle East. This special issue not only expands the discipline’s scope geographically but also conceptually by addressing IPE’s ‘blind spots’ including gender and sexuality, race and colonialism, security-economy nexus, and the expertise intensity of our economy. Contributors do so by challenging exceptionalist conceptions of the Middle
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‘Speak of the devil and he shall appear’: unpacking the practices of security brokers in West Africa Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Adib Bencherif, Maxime Ricard
This study investigates the intermediaries or brokers who participate in the constitution, negotiation, and production of peace and security policies in West Africa. These security brokers possess ...
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‘The poisons are already in here with us:’ framing for ecological revolutions from below Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Peter Gelderloos, Alexander Dunlap
ABSTRACT Below is a transcribed talk by Peter Gelderloos. This talk emerges from the book tour for The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for an Ecological Revolution from Below. This talk polemically recapitulates themes within the book, advocating for an anti-authoritarian ecological revolution and, consequently, chastising the terms ‘climate crisis’ and Anthropocene. The lecture extends beyond
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Brazilian foreign policy for the war in Ukraine: changing non-alignment, counterfactual, and future perspectives Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Bárbara Vasconcellos de Carvalho Motta, David Paulo Succi Junior
ABSTRACT The current paper analyses the Brazilian foreign policy towards the war in Ukraine, from the tensions preceding the invasion until the first half of the war's second year. Since the conflict began, Brazil was governed by two sharply contrasting administrations, neither of which clearly aligned with one side of the conflict. It is argued, however, that while Bolsonaro assumed an inert attitude
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Dollarization in the prism of state building: the case of Georgia Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Ia Eradze
ABSTRACT The Rose Revolution (2003) marked a beginning of the ‘new’ Georgian state and led to the recovery of the Georgian economy, but the level of dollarization remained high, exceeding 70%. Even though dollarization is a direct threat to the monetary sovereignty, as well as financial and political stability, it did not become an integral part of the state building project. Dollarization persistence
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Rising temperatures and rising prices: the inflationary impacts of climate change and the need for degrowth-based solutions to the ecological crisis Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Alla Semenova
This paper highlights the role of climate change as a persistent, systemic, long-term inflationary driver. The inflationary impacts of climate change have been commonly overlooked in the economic l...
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Where is finance in the financialization of development? Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Nick Bernards
This article analyses the growing emphasis on mobilizing private finance for development. Previous critiques have rightly highlighted the dangers of this turn, which empowers the extractive operati...
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Resisting ‘extractive capital’: a comparative study of two adivasi anti-mining movements in postcolonial (and neoliberal) India Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Jacopo Agostini, Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Priyanshu Gupta
ABSTRACT This study compares adivasi movements against two mining projects commissioned in India by Vedanta Resources, a London-based Indian mining corporation. One is the resistance of the Dongria Kondh to the bauxite mining and aluminium processing projects at Niyamgiri. The movement succeeded when the Supreme Court of India scrapped the project in 2013. The other is the movement of the Binjhal against
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The political economy of hipsters in Kazakhstan: mobilization, hybridity and class Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Rico Isaacs
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the political subjectivity of hipsters in Kazakhstan, the dynamics of their political mobilization, how they are influenced by global flows, and their constitution within broader issues of class. By conceptualizing hipsters as cultural hybrids who use tactics of everyday resistance and détournement in challenging the authoritarian regime in the country, the work eschews
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World organisations, world events and world objects: how science, politics, and the mass media co-produce climate futures Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Youssef Ibrahim, Simone Rödder, Michael Schnegg
Societies are becoming increasingly aware that they owe their emergence, wealth and industrialisation to their influence as a geophysical force. Social and environmental scientists have analysed th...
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Sociology and the international monetary system: an update of Hoogvelt and Vermeiren Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-04-30 Gabe Ignatow
While money is centrally important to globalization, inequality, and social conflict, sociological globalization theories lack a macro theoretical framework for analysis of the international moneta...
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‘Band aid’ for women in the ready-made garment industry: self-help and surveillance in Bangladesh Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Laura Dudley Jenkins
After the collapse of the Rana Plaza building killed over a thousand garment workers in 2013, several transnational corporations partnered with nongovernmental organizations to offer factory-based ...
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An insurrection in energy research: a dialogue between Carlos Tornel and Alexander Dunlap on energy justice, capitalist warfare & decolonization Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Alexander Dunlap, Carlos Tornel
This interview discusses energy justice, the university, academic research and autonomous politics. This dialogue expresses concern with energy, but also environmental, justice scholarship and move...
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‘You are not a loan’: contentious debt politics since the North Atlantic Financial Crisis Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Christoph Sorg
Debt has constituted a pivotal theme of both older and more recent mobilizations and critical public debate. While academia has started new discussions about debt relations, literature on resistanc...
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Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Julia Gurol, Alke Jenss, Fabricio Rodríguez, Benjamin Schuetze, Cita Wetterich
ABSTRACT Research on authoritarian connections beyond the state requires a transregional practices approach. This special issue is an invitation to combine critical approaches to the study of authoritarian power by paying attention to spaces of contestation, authoritarian practices, as well as non-state actors and agency below and beyond the scale of the state. We focus on authoritarian practices and
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Norm spoiling, gender washing and the pushback against women’s rights in Brazilian foreign policy Globalizations (IF 2.407) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Paula Drumond, Tamya Rebelo
The rise of radical right governments has intensified the pushback against gender norms in international forums. States who traditionally embraced gender equality in their foreign policies are now ...