Globalization, Crisis and Social Transformation: A View from the South
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- Munck, Ronaldo (Author)
Title
Globalization, Crisis and Social Transformation: A View from the South
Abstract
The dominant narrative around the unfolding capitalist crisis is firmly focused on the dominant economies, and in particular the US. This is understandable given that the proximate causes of the crisis lie in the imperial heartlands and crisis resolution measures taken there will have a global impact. But a 'view from the South' is needed to redress the balance and prevent the decimation of global majority likelihoods being presented as mere collateral damage. The first section below tackles the crisis from a global (globalization) perspective emphasizing its impact in the South and what that it might mean in terms of political prospects. I then go on to develop a hybrid Karl Polanyi/Antonio Gramsci theoretical lens on counter-movements based on their writings responding to the last systemic capitalist crisis in the 1930s. Finally, I turn to the ways in which the international labour movement and the subaltern or post-colonial worlds are contesting the terrain vacated by unregulated market capitalism. As Gramsci would say the old is dying but the new has not yet been born. La narrativa dominante alrededor de la crisis capitalista revelada, esta firmemente enfocada a las economias dominantes, y particularmente E.E.U.U. Esto es comprensible, dado que las proximas causas de la crisis yacen en la region central imperial y las medidas de resolucion de la crisis que se tomaron alli tendran un impacto global. Pero se necesita un 'punto de vista desde el sur' para compensar el equilibrio y prevenir la devastacion de las posibilidades de las mayorias globales presentadas como simple dano colateral. La primera seccion abajo trata la crisis desde una perspectiva global (globalizacion), enfatizando su impacto en el sur y lo que eso puede significar en terminos de prospectos politicos. Luego procedo con el desarrollo de una lente teorica hibrida de Karl Polanyi/Antonio Gramsci sobre movimientos opuestos en base a sus escritos que responden a la ultima crisis capitalista sistemica en la decada de 1930. Finalmente, vuelvo a las maneras en las cuales el movimiento laboral internacional y los mundos subalternos o postcoloniales estan disputando el terreno vacio por el mercado capitalista sin regulacion. Como Gramsci diria, lo viejo se esta muriendo, pero lo nuevo no esta aun por nacer. [image omitted]
Publication
Globalizations
Volume
7
Issue
1/2
Pages
235-246
Date
March 2010
Journal Abbr
Globalizations
Language
English
ISSN
14747731
Short Title
Globalization, Crisis and Social Transformation
Accessed
2017-05-30, 2:41 p.m.
Library Catalog
EBSCOhost
Citation
Munck, Ronaldo. 2010. “Globalization, Crisis and Social Transformation: A View from the South.” Globalizations 7 (1/2): 235–46. DOI: 10.1080/14747731003593620.
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Keywords
- capitalism
- countermovement
- crisis
- financial crises
- financial crisis
- globalization
- GRAMSCI, Antonio, 1891-1937
- hegemony
- international markets
- labour
- post-colonial
- social change
- South
- transformation
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