Book Roundtable: “Broken Solidarities. How Open Global Governance Divides and Rules”

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This Doing IPS book roundtable will offer a discussion on the recently published book Broken Solidarities. How Open Global Governance Divides and Rules by Felix Anderl. Felix will shortly introduce the book, its main ideas and implications. After that, four scholars will debate the merits and problems of his analysis from different disciplinary and political backgrounds.

Felix Anderl’s book is an analysis of the decline of social movements against the World Bank and the rise of a new form of transnational rule. Reflecting on the transnational mobilizations of the 1990s, the book examines activists’ struggles to sustain their momentum since then. It shows how the opening up of world economic institutions contributed to complex rule in global governance, creating access for some while weakening their critique and fragmenting the overall movement. The book bridges international relations and social movement studies to observe international organizations and social movements in their interaction, demonstrating how social movements are divided and ruled in the absence of a ruler.

Convener: Audrey Alejandro, a.alejandro@lse.ac.uk

This virtual roundtable will be held on 12 October 2022, 2pm, London Time (GMT +1).

Register in advance for this event here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Participants:

Moderation: Audrey Alejandro (LSE)

Input on the Book: Felix Anderl (Philipps University Marburg)

Respondents:

  • Álvaro Morcillo Laiz (Berlin Social Science Center)

  • Julia Rone (University of Cambridge)

  • Maïka Sondarjee (University of Ottawa)

  • Anders Uhlin (Lund University)

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