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Precarity and Belonging
Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider, entitled/unentitled, \"legal\"/\"illegal,\" and deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is, the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging.
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False dawn : the delusions of global capitalism
In the midst of the current financial crisis, John Gray revisits his polemic against the forces of global capitalism and deregulation. In a substantial new chapter he considers how the economic landscape has shifted in the last decade and asks the question: where do we go from here?
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Making globalization good : the moral challenges of global capitalism
Many of us have a sense of unease about current trends in global capitalism (GC) and global society. Inequalities and conflict seem endemic; much‐vaunted technological innovations seem unable to deliver structural change and development in many parts of the world; and ideological conflicts may be more intense than during the cold war. The central point of debate in this book is to identify and evaluate the moral challenges of what contributors refer to as ’responsible global capitalism (RGC)’. How can we develop a global economic architecture that is economically efficient, morally acceptable, geographically inclusive, and sustainable over time? If global capitalism––arguably the most efficient wealth‐creation system currently known to man––is to be both economically viable and socially acceptable, each of its four constituent institutions (markets, governments, supra‐national agencies and civil society) must not only be technically and administratively competent but also be buttressed and challenged by a strong ethical ethos. In this book, leading thinkers in international business and ethics (including academics, politicians and moralists) identify the pressing economic and moral issues that global capitalism must answer. Recognizing that solutions will not come from any one quarter, and that any serious discussion of a just and equitable system must embrace questions of ethics and faith, the book approaches the issues from a range of different disciplines and forums. It is arranged in three parts. Part I (5 chapters) presents the analytical framework underlying the volume's main themes. Part II (5 chapters) concentrates on the challenges, opportunities, and dilemmas posed by global capitalism. Part III (6 chapters) considers how the global society might better organize itself, and its constituent institutions to respond to the challenges of global capitalism in a way that helps embrace an agreed set of core values, while accepting the need for a degree of cultural diversity and tolerance in respect of the interpretation of these and the identification and practice of non‐core values.
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Technofeudalism, or capitalism same as it ever was? Placing the blockchain in global capitalism
In this article, I place the blockchain within competing interpretations of the present as either an emerging technofeudal mode of production, or as a relatively unchanged capitalism. Drawing on a wide literature on zones – spaces in nation-states where the usual rules do not apply – I highlight three reconfigurations of territory, authority, and rights (TAR) associated with the blockchain today. These are: (1) the transnational expansion of crypto-related practices; (2) the national regulation and legitimation of cryptoassets; and (3) the reemergence of a liberal discourse linking human rights to the global exchange of private property. Through these examples, I demonstrate how the blockchain is part of a broader reshaping of accumulation and legal legitimation, mirroring the emergence of capitalism and the nation-state, but on a global scale. I conclude by arguing against the position that the reemergence of fascism is a red herring distracting us from the coming technofeudalism; instead, I claim that technofeudalism obscures the links between today’s techno-authoritarian shift and the enforcement of global corporate private property relations.
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Governing the Displaced
Governing the Displaced
answers a straightforward question: how are refugees
governed under capitalism in this moment of heightened global
displacement? To answer this question, Ali Bhagat takes a
dual case study approach to explore three dimensions of refugee
survival in Paris and Nairobi: shelter, work, and political
belonging.
Bhagat's book makes sense of a global refugee regime along the
contradictory fault lines of passive humanitarianism, violent
exclusion, and organized abandonment in the European Union and East
Africa.
Governing the Displaced highlights the interrelated and
overlapping features of refugee governance and survival in these
seemingly disparate places. In its intersectional engagement with
theories of racial capitalism with respect to right-wing populism,
labor politics, and the everyday forms of exclusion, the book is a
timely and necessary contribution to the field of migration studies
and to political economy.
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Ouverture de ‘Global Networks and Sustainable Development - 1’
From the beginning of the 2010s and up to these years, a fourth phase of globalisation produced a structural change in network’s competition (network globalisation 2010-2020). The global capitalism, in effect, determines profound changes in economics and social bonds and radically modifies the traditional basic principles of industrial production. The global capitalism introduced indeed a new dimension of worldwide competition based on collaborative networks. For example, in several industries fusions have involved a ‘mega-merger’ of corporate giants that has radically transformed the competitive balance in these sectors. The new basic driver of global capitalism specifically regard: Health; Energy; Food; and Communication.
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