The paradox of 'globalization' is that it both weakens and activates social forces of resistance. This book establishes the centrality of 'the political' in our understanding of globalization and explores the new 'strategies of resistance' emerging on local, national, regional and global scales. Its impressively wide-ranging set of contributors engage in re-thinking what practices now constitute viable political strategies in the world economy, focusing on popular responses to neoliberal globalization and the rearticulation of society, politics and the state.

List of Tables and Figures Foreword: The Social Left and the Market System; J.K.Galbraith Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE: THINKING THROUGH POLITICS Introduction: Globalization and the Politics of Resistance; B.K.Gills Overturning 'Globalization': Resisting Teleology, Reclaiming Politics; L.Amoore, R.Dodgson, B.K.Gills, P.Langley, D.Marshall & I.Watson Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalism; J.Mittleman & C.Chin Resisting 'Globalization-From-Above' Through 'Globalization-From-Below'; R.Falk Globalization versus Community: Stakeholding, Communitarianism and the Challenge of Globalization; R.J.B.Jones Globalization and Democratic Provisionism; R.Latham Rearticulation of the State in a Globalizing World Economy; J.A.Hart & A.Prakash False Prophets and the Politics of the Retreat of the State; I.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'; P.Waterman From National Resistance to International Labor Politics; D.Stevis & T.Boswell Globalization and American Common Sense: Struggling to Make Sense of a Post-Hegemonic World; M.Rupert Globalization and Emancipation: From Local Empowerment to Global Reform; J.N.Pieterse 'Corporate Welfare' Campaigns in North America; K.P.Thomas Neoliberal Globalization, Social Welfare and Trade Unions in Southeast Asia; J.D.Schmidt Globalization, Islam, and Resistance; M.K.Pasha Mexico, Neoliberal Restructuring and the EZLN: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis; A.D.Morton Globalization and Local Resistance: The Case of Shell versus the Ogoni; C.I.Obi Structural Adjustment and the Response of Civil Society in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Analysis; S.J.MacLean, F.Quadir & T.M.Shaw Index