Bringing together contributions
from an international group of social scientists, this collection examines
diverse crises, both historical and contemporary, which implicate market
forces, widening inequalities, social exclusion, forms of resistance, and ideological
polarisation. The Commonalities of
Global Crises offers carefully researched
case studies which stretch across large geographical distances- from Egypt to
the US and from northern, central, eastern and southern Europe to South
America- and covers timely issues including human rights, slavery, care,
migration, racism, and the far right. The volume demonstrates that such
different settings and diverse concerns are characterized by a common tension
in which the crises that unfold around pressures of widening marketization and
commodification are met by the (re)building or re-assertion of various
communities, and competing politics of solidarity and nostalgia.