Routledge Globalism and Localization: Emergent Solutions to Ecological and Social Crises

Considering the context of the present ecological and social crisis, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the relationship between globalism and localization. Globalism may be viewed as a positive emergent property of globalization. The latter depicts a worldwide economic and political system, and arguably a worldview, that has directly increased planetary levels of injustice, poverty, militarism, violence, and ecological destruction. In contrast, globalism represents interconnected systems of exchange and resourcefulness through increased communications across innumerable global diversities. In an economic, cultural, and political framework, localization centers on small-scale communities placed within the immediate bioregion, providing intimacy between the means of production and consumption, as well as long-term security and resilience. There is an increasing movement towards localization in order to counteract the destruction wreaked by globalization, yet our world is deeply and integrally immersed within a globalized reality. Within this collection, contributors expound upon the connection between local and global phenomenon within their respective fields including social ecology, climate justice, ecopsychology, big history, peace ecology, social justice, community resilience, indigenous rights, permaculture, food justice, liberatory politics, and both transformative and transpersonal studies. Review Together the essays in this brilliantly conceived collection reveal the strengths of global activism. While presenting indigenous and local wisdom, these essays document the effectiveness of engaged local community through a myriad of lenses – whether indigenous food sovereignty, or environmental groups, or climate, economic and social justice movements. Along with glimpses of an innovative, potential and future well-being for us all, these pages give us a wide and fertile ground for change.  Susan Griffin, author Woman and Nature (2016). "Think globally, act locally"―there’s a lot of wisdom in that slogan, but what is the difference between globalism and globalization? Can localization work for the wellbeing of the whole planet? The contributors to this volume look at these issues through the complementary lenses of economic and environmental justice, racism, ecopsychology, permaculture, indigenous rights, digital technology, and mobilization strategies. The result is a thoughtful and useful response to the social and ecological crises that challenge us today.  David Loy, author of Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis (2019) A provocative collection of diverse climate justice voices from the ground that engages globalism as one of the most important paradigms of our time and analyzes how globalization has the potential to destroy our sense of place, belonging, and location. As our increasingly globalized world thrusts and displaces individuals and collective societies beyond our locations into larger unfamiliar and abstract spaces occupied by market profiteers, transnational corporations, and state governments, these authors offer perspectives, emergent solutions, and hope for our social and ecological crisis. Advocating and reclaiming a paradigm of localization could be truly transformative. This is an important book to read.  Suzanne Benally, Executive Director, Cultural Survival From the first word of the "Dedication" to the last sentence of the final chapter, this book’s radical thinkers open vistas to the futures we want. They do this via a relational understanding of the meanings of social justice and their deep and nuanced intersectional engagements with climate justice, indigenous struggles, food sovereignty, the promises and perils of digital organizing, living better (as in buen vivir) and transforming selves and worlds at the same time. This book’s heart is in just the right place, the space where ordinary people’s activism reaches toward tota