Review Of: Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies

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The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies provides diverse and cutting-edge perspectives on this fast-changing field. For 30 years the world has been caught in a long ‘global interregnum,’ plunging from one crisis to the next and witnessing the emergence of new, vibrant, multiple, and sometimes contradictory forms of popular resistance and politics. This global ‘interregnum’– or a period ofuncertainty where the old hegemony is fading and the new ones have not yet been fully realized – necessitates critical self-reflection, brave intellec- tual speculation and (un)learning of perceived wisdoms, and greater transdisciplinary collabor- ation across theories, localities, and subjects. This Handbook takes up this challenge by developing fresh perspectives on globalization, development, neoliberalism, capitalism, and their progressive alternatives, addressing issues of democracy, power, inequality, insecurity, precarity, wellbeing, education, displacement, social movements, violence and war, and climate change. Throughout, it emphasizes the dynamics for system change, including bringing post-capitalist, feminist, (de)colonial, and other critical perspectives to support transformative global praxis. This volume brings together a mixture of fresh and established scholars from across discip- lines and from a range of both Northern and Southern contexts. Researchers and students from around the world and across the fields of politics, sociology, international develop- ment, international relations, geography, social anthropology, economics, area studies, and philosophy will find this an invaluable and fresh guide to global studies in the 21st century. S. A. Hamed Hosseini is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of Newcas- tle, Australia, where he is Director of Alternative Futures Research Network. James Goodman is Professor in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technol- ogy Sydney, Australia, where he is Director of the Climate Justice Research Centre. Sara C. Motta is a mother, poet, critical theorist, popular educator, and Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Barry K. Gills is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland; Chief Editor of the journal Globalizations and Editor of Routledge’s ‘Rethinking Globaliza- tions’ book series.