Globalization and the politics of resistance / edited by Barry K. Gills ; foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : the social left and the market system / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Part I. Globalization and resistance : thinking through politics. Introduction : Globalization and the politics of resistance / Barry K. Gills -- Overturning 'globalization' : resisting teleology, reclaiming politics / Louise Amoore, Richard Dodgson, Barry Gills, Paul Langley, Don Marshall and Iain Watson -- Conceptualizing resistance to globalization / Christine B. N. Chin and James H. Mittelman -- Resisting 'globalization-from-above' through 'globalization-from-below' / Richard Falk -- Globalization versus community : stakeholding, communitarianism and the challenge of globalization / R. J. Barry Jones -- Globalization and the transformation of economic rights / Robert Latham -- Rearticulation of the state in a globalizing world economy / Jeffrey A. Hart and Aseem Prakash -- Globalization and the retreat of the state / Ian R. Douglas -- Part II. Strategies of resistance : from the local to the global. Social movements, local places and globalized spaces : implications for 'globalization from below' / Peter Waterman -- From national resistance to international labour politics / Dimitris Stevis and Terry Boswell -- Globalization and American common sense : struggling to make sense of a post-hegemonic world / Mark Rupert -- Globalization and emancipation : from local empowerment to global reform / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- 'Corporate welfare' campaigns in North America / Kenneth P. Thomas -- Neoliberal globalization, social welfare and trade unions in Southeast Asia / Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt -- Globalization, Islam and resistance / Mustapha Kamal Pasha -- Mexico, neoliberal restructuring and the EZLN : a neo-Gramscian analysis / Adam David Morton -- Globalization and local resistance : the case of Shell versus the Ogoni / Cyril I. Obi -- Structural adjustment and the response of civil society in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe : a comparative analysis / Sandra J. MacLean, Fahimul Quadir and Timothy M. Shaw.