A History Of World Order And Resistance: The Making And Unmaking Of Global Subjects (rethinking Globalizations)

This book combines theory with history to look into a dozen episodes of struggle over the concrete and situated terms of world ordering, and it finds reasons to think that the contemporary 'movement of movements' against neo-liberal globalization has deeper roots and a broader history than is usually recognized. Informed by case studies from the US, the UK, France, South Africa, Algeria, the Philippines and Jamaica, A History of World Order and Resistance examines how men and women are sometimes subjectified by world ordering, and how they sometimes make themselves true subjects of their own global history. The author, an expert on resistance to world ordering, situates the contemporary 'movement of movements' against neo-liberal globalization in a broader historical framework to argue that resistance to world ordering has not only developed its very own, unalienating, mode of relation to the world economy, but also sustained it over two hundred years, without political mediation or representations. Herein lies the heart of the on-going world revolution against capital. The book concludes with a radical polemic against the political organization of the multitude. A History of World Order and Resistance will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, international political economy and globalization. Contents 8 List of figures 10 Foreword • Jai Sen 12 Acknowledgements 18 Introduction: ‘We’ has been there before 20 1 Before us: unrelational, immaterial, notions of global power and counter-power 34 2 Towards a proper theory of global presence: three concepts to begin understanding who ‘We’ is 44 3 Global neighbourhoods and plantations: the long nineteenth century between Toussaint L’Ouverture and the First World War 58 4 Sites unseen and whole countries: from the end of the First World War to the crisis of the Bretton Woods world order 100 5 Everywhere?: the present juncture 123 Conclusion: what is ‘We’ to do? 156 Notes 168 Bibliography 182 Index 208 Introduction: We Has Been There Before -- Before Us: Unrelational, Immaterial Notions Of Global Power And Counter-power -- Towards A Proper Theory Of Global Presence -- Global Neighbourhoods And Plantations -- Sites Unseen And Whole Countries -- Everywhere? -- Conclusion: What Is We To Do?. André C. Drainville. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [163]-188) And Index.