EM/ProfJames Goodman

Co edited with James Goodman of UTS. 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. 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.

under contract and the manuscript was handed over to publisher in February 2006

under contract and the manuscript was handed over to publisher in September 2005 for publication in March 2006

Guest Editor

under contract and the manuscript was handed over to publisher in November 2005

co-edited collection of twelve chapters