Marco Guglielmo and other colleagues have edited the SI 'Progressive Politics in Times of Crisis'
Progressive mobilizations in recent months have halted the rise of the far right in France, while a newly centrist Labor Party won elections in the United Kingdom. How do we make sense of these facts? Do progressive actors face the same old dilemmas between marginality and co-optation, or are there new ways of thinking, connecting and mobilizing around emancipatory goals? And how do progressive policies emerge and act at the intersections of the crises of capitalism and liberal democracies?
The contributions of the Special Issue 'Progressive Politics in Times of Crisis' of the journal Global Political Economy edited by Marco Guglielmo (University of Valencia) with David Bailey, Melany Cruz and Bradley Ward answer these and other questions through multiple critical perspectives.
To introduce all these questions to all the interested public, an online session will be held on July 23 to present this special issue
SI presentation program:
16.00 – 16.15. Welcome from Mònica Clua-Losada, editor-in-chief of Global Political Economy. Introduction to the special issue by the guest editors.
16.15 – 17.00. Presentations of articles
17.00-18.00. Q&A
‘Weak progressive politics and resistance without guarantees in the post-pandemic global political economy: a broadly Marxist account’, by David Bailey
‘The crisis in South America: neoliberalism, neo-developmentalism and beyond. Insights from Argentina and Brazil’, by Dario Clemente
‘Feminists for a new Constitution in Chile: forging progressive alliances in times of crisis’, by Melany Cruz
‘Queer/Green collaboration as a radical response to climate crises: foregrounding the green stripe’, by Emma Foster and Peter Kerr
‘Towards the progressive network-system: a normative theory of organisation to achieve disruption in times of crisis’, by Marco Guglielmo and Bradley Ward
‘Anxious solidarities against the mental health crisis: connecting personal struggles to wider social and economic injustices’, by A.T.
‘Urban social movements as extended class actors: struggles over reproduction in Buenos Aires, New York City and Hamburg’, by Sarah Uhlmann
‘The revolution of values and the crisis of liberal democracy’, by Ben Whitham
