[Imc-midwest-regional] Fwd: [IMC-Editorial] globalization and postmodern politics

[Biodun Iginla]

--- Pluto Press <pluto at plutobks.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> From: "Pluto Press" <pluto at plutobks.demon.co.uk>
> To: imc-editorial at indymedia.org
> Subject: [IMC-Editorial] globalization and
> postmodern politics
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:53:46 -0800
> 
> 
> From: "Melanie Patrick"
> <melanie at plutobks.demon.co.uk>
> To: imc-editorial at indymedia.org
> Subject: globalization and postmodern politics
> Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2001, 2:40 am
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm writing from Pluto Press, as we've just
> published a new book called
> 'Globalization and Postmodern Politics: From
> Zapatistas to High-Tech Robber
> Barons' by Roger Burbach, which I think you might be
> interested in. It's a
> powerful critique of globalization that takes a look
> at the new
> revolutionary movements, evident in Seattle and
> Prague, that are rising up
> to challenge transnational institutions. I've posted
> a full description of
> the book below. The author, Roger Burbach, is
> Director for the Center for
> the Study of the Americas, and is an activist who
> has written widely on
> radical politics.
> 
> I was wondering if you would be interested in a
> review copy of the book,
> for an article or a book review? I realise that the
> Independent Media
> Center is a diverse organization, but perhaps you
> could post this release
> to your journalists, or give me more information
> about how to make the book
> available to your readers?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Melanie Patrick
> Marketing Executive
> Pluto Press
> melanie at plutobks.demon.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 
> 
> GLOBALIZATION AND POSTMODERN POLITICS
> From Zapatistas to High-Tech Robber Barons
> Roger Burbach
> 
> ³Burbach¹s superb analysis of emerging political
> movements provides
> eloquent testimony to the fact that corporate
> overreach has succeeded in
> creating an international opposition to
> globalization that now has the
> ascendancy. Resistance is re-invented by every
> generation. Burbach¹s book
> reveals how it has been reinvented by ours.² Walden
> Bello, author of Dark
> Victory: The US, Structural Ajustment, and Global
> Poverty
> 
> In this provocative critique of globalization, Roger
> Burbach reveals how
> institutions such as the World Trade Organization
> (WTO), The International
> Monetary Fund and the transnational corporations are
> intent upon exercising
> a new hegemony over our lives while the role of the
> transnational state is
> transformed. At the centre of this power shift is a
> group of high-tech
> robber barons who dominate the information age and
> exploit the technologies
> of globalization for their own narrow interests.
> 
> Assessing the response to this concentration of
> power and wealth, Burbach
> explores the rise of new
> postmodern grassroots oppositional movements.
> Manifest in such diverse
> struggles as the uprising of the Zapatistas in
> Mexico and the Battle of
> Seattle against the WTO, Burbach argues that this
> new postmodern politics
> is ³decentred² and has little interest in the old
> ideologies that dominated
> much of the twentieth century. He draws on
> contemporary historical
> experiences, such as the demise of socialist and
> proto-socialist
> experiments in Chile, Grenada, Nicaragua and Cuba,
> while discussing the
> emergence of an array of movements comprised of the
> marginalized, the
> dispossessed and those who refuse to accept the rule
> of the transnational
> elites. The first two chapters on globalization as
> an epochal shift are
> co-authored with William I. Robinson, and the
> concluding chapter on the
> Zapatistas and the Intergalactic Age is written by
> Fiona Jeffries.
> 
> Roger Burbach is Director of the Center for the
> Study of the Americas. He
> has written extensively on Latin America, US
> politics, and on
> post-communist societies and is the author, with
> Octavio Nunez and Boris
> Kagarlitsky, of Globalization and its Discontents:
> The Rise of Postmodern
> Socialisms (Pluto Press, 1996).
> 
> 
> ISBN: 0 7453 1649 2            Price: £12.99/ $22.50
> paperback
> Publication Date:  1 March 2001
> 
> 
> For a review copy or inspection copy contact:
> Melanie Patrick at Pluto
> Press, melanie at plutobks.demon.co.uk,  Tel: 020 8348
> 2724
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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