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Revolt : the worldwide uprising against globalization

Uniform Title
Mered neged ha-globalizatsyah. English
Title
Revolt : the worldwide uprising against globalization / Nadav Eyal ; translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman.
ISBN
9780062973351
0062973355
9780062973382
006297338X
9780062973368
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
Physical Description
516 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
"Originally published as The Revolt Against Globalization in Israel in 2018 by Yediot Ahronot Books" -- Title page.
Summary
"A thought-provoking examination of populism's spread around the world as the promise of globalism wanes Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt. or simply unresponsive to urgent needs. Eyal illuminates the benign and malignant forces that have so rapidly transformed our economic, political, and cultural realities, shedding light not only on the economic and cultural revolution that has come to define our time but also on the counterrevolution waged by those it has marginalized and exploited. With a mixture of journalistic narrative, penetrating vignettes, and original analysis, Revolt shows that the left and right have much in common. Eyal tells stories of distressed Pennsylvania coal miners, anarchist communes on the outskirts of Athens, a Japanese town with collapsing fertility rates, neo-Nazis in Germany, and Syrian refugee families whom he accompanied from the shores of Greece to their destination in Germany. Into these reports from the present Eyal weaves lessons from the past, from the opium wars in China to colonialist Haiti to the Marshall Plan. With these historical ties, he shows that the revolts' roots have always been deep and strong, and that rather than seeing current uprisings as part of a passing phenomenon, we should recognize that revolt is the new status quo"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Eyal, Nadav, 1979- Revolt First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 15, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The death of an age
An attack on a newspaper
Showering twice a month
The globalization wars
The land of the last elephants
"We refuse to die"
The rebellion's harbingers
Talking with Nationalists
A Nazi revival
The middle-class mutinies
Anarchists with Ferraris
Disappearing children
"Humankind Is the Titanic"
Faces of Exodus
An experiment and its costs
Rivers of blood
A subject of the empire speaks
"My mother was murdered here"
The anti-globalizer
The implosion of truth
The battle for progress
A new story.
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