Crisis Movement Management: Globalising Dynamics

<p>Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises - social ecological political. In the past crises of global order have generated large-scale social transformations and the current crises likewise hold a transformative promise. Social movements become a crucial barometer in signalling both the demise and rise of political formations and programs. Elite strategies framed as crisis management create their own disordering side-effects. Experiments in movement strategy gain greater significance as do contending elite efforts at repressing managing or displacing the fall-out. In this book we investigate both movements and management in the face of crisis taking crisis and unanticipated consequences as a normal state-of-play. The book enquires into the winners and losers from crisis and investigates the movement-management nexus as it unfolds in particular localities as well as in broader contexts.</p><p>The book deals with some of the most pressing conflicts of our time and produces a range of theoretical insights: the ubiquity of crisis is seen as not only a hallmark of social life but a way into a different kind of social analysis.</p><p>This book was published as a special issue of <i>Globalizations</i>.</p>