Critical Theories, International Relations and ‘the Anti-Globalisation Movement’ The Politics of Global Resistance
Critical Theories, International Relations and ‘the Anti-Globalisation Movement’ The Politics of Global Resistance
Edited by Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca
# Publisher: Routledge
# Number Of Pages: 283
# Publication Date: 2005
# ISBN : 0-203-68192-4 (Adobe eReader Format)
0–415–34390–9 (hbk)
0–415–34391–7 (pbk)
# Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
With this book, Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca make an important intervention in the contemporary debates on critical IR theory and the implications for concrete 'anti-globalisation' politics. In our view, their provocative and stimulating book will mark a departure from IR and IPE accounts of 'anti-globalisation' that take the theory and empirical realities as a given. Motivated by a desire to explore the intersection of critical theory and anti-globalisation practices, this book draws together insights from approaches as diverse as Marxism, Gramscian theory, feminism, poststructuralism, constructivism and postcolonialism. As such, the perspectives on power and movement that are taken in the volume cannot be easily captured under a single rubric. Eschle and Maiguascha have sought to engage their authors in an ongoing dialogue that stimulates open debate, rather than closing down possible insights into the anti-globalisation movement. Indeed, the reader will find that there are many more questions raised and explored than definitively answered in this volume. What does it mean to be 'antiglobalisation'? Is it possible to identify a singular entity we might call the 'anti-globalisation movement'? How can we best understand the politics of movement in an era of globalization? Who speaks, and who is silenced in international relations and international political economy accounts of power and resistance?