The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia

Karner, Christian; Weicht, Bernhard

Bringing together contributions from an international group of social scientists, this collection examines diverse crises, both historical and contemporary, which implicate market forces, widening inequalities, social exclusion, forms of resistance, and ideological polarisation. The Commonalities of Global Crises offers carefully researched case studies which stretch across large geographical distances- from Egypt to the US and from northern, central, eastern and southern Europe to South America- and covers timely issues including human rights, slavery, care, migration, racism, and the far right. The volume demonstrates that such different settings and diverse concerns are characterized by a common tension in which the crises that unfold around pressures of widening marketization and commodification are met by the (re)building or re-assertion of various communities, and competing politics of solidarity and nostalgia.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-06-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137502711

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50273-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 371