Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics EPUB

Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises – social, ecological, political.

In the past, crises of global order have generated large-scale social transformations, and the current crises likewise hold a transformative promise.

Social movements become a crucial barometer, in signalling both the demise and rise of political formations and programs.

Elite strategies, framed as crisis management, create their own disordering side-effects.

Experiments in movement strategy gain greater significance, as do contending elite efforts at repressing, managing or displacing the fall-out.

In this book we investigate both movements and management in the face of crisis, taking crisis and unanticipated consequences as a normal state-of-play.

The book enquires into the winners and losers from crisis, and investigates the movement-management nexus as it unfolds in particular localities as well as in broader contexts. The book deals with some of the most pressing conflicts of our time, and produces a range of theoretical insights: the ubiquity of crisis is seen as not only a hallmark of social life, but a way into a different kind of social analysis. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.