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Book SynopsisAn overview of global politics, the corporate powers who dominate the information age
Trade Review'At last. A book that seeks to explain the explosion of opposition to global corporatism without using this as an excuse to batter just about every attempt to keep left thinking up with the times' -- Red Pepper
'Burbach's superb analysis of emerging political movements provides eloquent testimony to the fact that corporate overreach has succeeded in creating an international opposition to globalisation that now has the ascendancy' -- Walden Bello, author of Dark Victory: The US, Structural Adjustment, and Global Poverty
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction: Globalization, New Resistances and the Postmodern Age
Part One: Globalization
1. The Epochal Shift: Co-Authored with William I. Robinson
2. Epochal Clashes: Third Worldization and the New Hegemony: Co-authored with William I Robinson
3. High Tech Robber Barons
Part Two: Politics in a Postmodern Age
4. Shades of Postmodern Politics
5. The (Un)defining of Postmodern Marxism
6. The Virtually Existing Global Revolution
Part 3: Zapatistas and the Latin American Context(ualization)
7. Socialist and Postmodern Politics in the Americas
8. Roots of the Postmodern Rebellion in Chiapas
9. Zapatismo and the Intergalactic Age: Authored by Fiona Jeffries
Epilogue: The Millennial Cracks
Footnotes
Bibliography
