Alternative Globalizations: An Integrative Approach to Studying Dissident Knowledge in the Global Justice Movement (Rethinking Globalizations) - Softcover

Hosseini, S.A. Hamed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041550242X ISBN 13: 9780415502429

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

Are the growing oppositions to neoliberal market globalism (especially in the aftermath of global economic meltdown) able to develop meaningful alternative ideologies? Is there any substantial alternative to the world capitalist system on the horizon? How would the ideologies and ideas address the dire dilemmas of economy vs. ecology, redistribution vs. recognition, global vs. local, reform vs. revolution etc.?

This book answers such important questions by examining the intellectual structure of the so-called ‘anti-globalization’ or ‘global justice’ movement. It explores the formation and transformation of ideas, identities, and solidarities in the movement. The book also develops an analytical model to explain the movement’s ideational novelties and continuities in terms of both activist social experiences and global social changes.

Hosseini develops new sociological concepts, integrates opposing theoretical perspectives into one approach, and addresses the gap between critical theories and activist practices. Through this endeavor, he discovers an emerging mode of consciousness which is characterized by its cross-identity and cross-ideological nature. This is a live but quiet global revolution.

Drawing on a variety of disciplines, this gourd-breaking volume will be of interest to students and scholars of global studies, political sciences, sociology and social movement studies.

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From the Author:

Alternative Globalizations, Solidarity, and Visions: The Destiny of Global Dissidence in the Chaotic World of 21 Century!

Since the birth of Arab Spring in the Middle East, followed by the rise of Occupy Movements against the North American financial powerhouses, and the spread of anti-austerity uprisings across Europe, many commentators and scholars have started to investigate and explain the very new nature of these globalizing yet locally motivated events. However, these movements have not emerged out of blue. They are both new and old, global and local, political and economic. Understanding their complex nature requires new models and theories It can be reasonably argued that "Alternative Globalizations" by Dr S A Hosseini is an outstanding effort among the recent works in this area as it was written and published before the outbreak of these international events, providing the scholars and the students of this area with a unique framework for theorizing them. The book anticipated the globalization of a new mode of consciousness underlying these events; a new but a quite profound revolutionary shift in many protesters' political identities and consciousness, and it has explored a significant shift in the way that political ideologies are expected to function in the 21th Century.
The book also lays the foundations of a new approach to studying these novel changes; an integrative approach to investigating a new generation of social movements and revolutions in a much more comprehensive way compatible to their complex nature.


Read the reviews: Book Reviewed by Adrian Gray © 2012 The Authors. Political Studies Review © 2012 Political Studies Association, Volume 10, Issue 1, pages 111-112, January 2012

About the Author:

Dr. S. A. Hamed Hosseini is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Education and Arts, and an Associated Researcher at The Australian Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He completed his PhD in Global Studies (2006) at the Australian National University (ANU). He has conducted research on transnational social movements, global social change, globalist ideologies, Islamism, and transnational identities. Since 2003, he has been teaching at the Australian National University, University of Technology Sydney, University of New South Wales, and the University of Newcastle, in the areas of Global Health, Global Welfare, Global Social Change, Globalization, Research Methods, Environmental Sociology, Religion and Politics. He has published articles and presented conference papers on Global Justice (2009), Sociology of Dissident Knowledge (2007), Transnational Solidarities (2006), Sociology of Collective Cognition (2003), Rural and Regional Development in Iran (1999, 2000), Sociology of Conservatism, and New Conservatism in the Context of Iran (2000), Ali Shariati's Critical School of Thought (2000), and the Applicability of Social Theories in the Context of Iran (1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 041550242X
• ISBN 13: 9780415502429
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288