Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a hypermarket where money talks. For the majority of people around the globe, this translates as precarity and immiseration. But how can we break from this dominant ideological framework?
Expose, Oppose, Propose details how, since the mid 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have functioned as think tanks of a different sort, generating resources for a globalization from below in dialogue with the critical social movements that are protagonists for global justice.
Based on two years of intensive research, William Carroll not only provides a detailed examination of a variety of TAPGs - showing how each group is distinctive and autonomous in its vision, practical priorities, and ways of producing and mobilizing alternative knowledge - but also reveals how TAPGs form a master frame that advocates and envisages global justice and ecological wellbeing.
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William K. Carroll teaches at the Sociology Department at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of social movements and social change, the political economy of corporate capitalism, and critical social theory and method. His books include The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class (Zed Books, 2010), Remaking Media (2006), and Organizing Dissent (1997).
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Preface
1. Hegemony, Counter-hegemony and Organic Crisis
2. Alternative Knowledge Projects and Cognitive Praxis with Elaine Coburn
3. Networks of Cognitive Praxis: Embedding Postcapitalist Alternatives? with J.P. Sapinski
4. Challenges and Responses
5. The Challenge of NGOization with J.P. Sapinski
6. The Repertoire of alt KPM: Modes of Cognitive Praxis
7. The Repertoire of alt KPM: Key Practices
8. Convergent Visions: The Ends of Alternative Knowledge