Globalizations from Below: The Normative Power of the World Social Forum, Ant Traders, Chinese Migrants,...

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Theodor Tudoroiu (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)

Globalizations from Below

The Normative Power of the World Social Forum, Ant Traders, Chinese Migrants, and Levantine...

Theodor Tudoroiu (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Society & culture: general; Politics & government

Series: Rethinking Globalizations

Globalizations from Below uses a Constructivist International Relations approach that emphasizes the centrality of normative power to analyze and compare the four globalizations ‘from below.’

These are: (1) the counter-hegemonic globalization represented by the ‘movement of movements’ of alter-globalization transnational social activists, who try to put an end to the Neoliberal nature of the Western-centered globalization ‘from above’; (2) the non-hegemonic globalization enacted by ‘ant traders’ that are part of the transnational informal economy; (3) the partially similar Chinese-centered globalization, whose entrepreneurial migrants are strongly influenced and instrumentalized by the Chinese state; and (4) the first wave globalization ‘from below’ that paralleled (and outlived) the 1870–1914 globalization ‘from above.’ This book identifies their common features and uses them to define the concept of globalization ‘from below’ as a set of socio-economic or socio-political processes that involve large transnational flows of people, goods, and/or ideas characterized at least in part by informality. They are enacted by entrepreneurial or activistic individuals who either take advantage of the normative power of the hegemon at the origin of an international order and an associated globalization ‘from above,’ or – explicitly or implicitly – transgress, contest, and try to redefine dominant economic, legal, political, and socio-cultural norms, thus challenging the existing international order and globalization ‘from above.’ By constructing a unified theoretical framework, this book attempts to open a new field of interdisciplinary research that should take globalizations ‘from below’ out of their current scholarly marginality.

This is one of the first scholarly works to collectively present more than one globalization ‘from below,’ and will be of great interest to students, scholars, and researchers of International Relations, International Political Economy, Development Studies, Economic History, Anthropology, Diaspora Studies, and Chinese Studies.

By: Theodor Tudoroiu (The University of the West Indies Trinidad and Tobago)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032323756
ISBN 10: 1032323752
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Theodor Tudoroiu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.