A History of World Order and Resistance : The Making and Unmaking of Global Subjects

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.

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.